Tan Chew Keong has reported a vulnerability in UltraEdit, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the FTP/SFTP browser when downloading directories containing files with directory traversal specifiers in the filename. This can be exploited to download files to an arbitrary location on a user's system.

Successful exploitation requires that the user is tricked into connecting and downloading a directory from a malicious FTP server.

The vulnerability is reported in version 14.00b. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 14.10 or later.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Tan Chew Keong

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://vuln.sg/ultraedit1400b-en.html

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