IBM Tivoli Access Manager Plugin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

BID:16494

Info

IBM Tivoli Access Manager Plugin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 16494
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2006-0513
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 04 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 04 2006 12:00AM
Credit: Timothy D. Morgan is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business 6.0
IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business 5.1 10
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

IBM Tivoli Access Manager Plugin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Tivoli Access Manager Plugin for Web Servers is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve arbitrary files from the vulnerable system in the context of the webserver process. Information obtained may aid in further attacks; other attacks are also possible.

Note that the attacker must be an authenticated user to exploit this vulnerability.

Versions 5.1.0.10 and 6.0.0 are vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

IBM Tivoli Access Manager Plugin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

An example URI has been provided:

http://www.example.com/pkmslogout?filename=../../../../../../../etc/passwd

Solution / Fix

IBM Tivoli Access Manager Plugin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Solution:

IBM has released a fix pack for versions 5.1.0 and 6.0; please see the reference section for further details.


IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business 5.1 10

IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business 6.0

References

IBM Tivoli Access Manager Plugin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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