Ventia DeskNow Mail And Collaboration Server Multiple Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

BID:12421

Info

Ventia DeskNow Mail And Collaboration Server Multiple Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 12421
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 02 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 02 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Tan Chew Keong is credited with the disclosure of this issue.
Vulnerable: Ventia DeskNow Mail and Collaboration Server 2.5.13
Ventia DeskNow Mail and Collaboration Server 2.5.12
Not Vulnerable: Ventia DeskNow Mail and Collaboration Server 2.5.14

Discussion

Ventia DeskNow Mail And Collaboration Server Multiple Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

Multiple remote directory traversal vulnerabilities affect Ventia DeskNow Mail And Collaboration Server. These issues are due to a failure of the application to sanitize user-supplied input prior to using it to write and erase files.

The first issue affects the email attachment file upload functionality. The second issue surrounds the file delete functionality of the document repository feature.

An attacker may leverage this issue to delete and create arbitrary files on an affected computer. This may lead to code execution with the privileges of the affected server process as well as system wide denial of service attacks.

Exploit / POC

Ventia DeskNow Mail And Collaboration Server Multiple Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

No exploit is required to leverage either of these issues.

Solution / Fix

Ventia DeskNow Mail And Collaboration Server Multiple Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released an upgrade dealing with this issue.


Ventia DeskNow Mail and Collaboration Server 2.5.12

Ventia DeskNow Mail and Collaboration Server 2.5.13

References

Ventia DeskNow Mail And Collaboration Server Multiple Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

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