EditTag Multiple Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	21890
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jan 05 2007 12:00AM
Updated:	Jan 05 2007 10:01PM
Credit:	NetJackal is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable:	Greg Billock EditTag 1.2
Not Vulnerable:

EditTag Multiple Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

EditTag is prone to multiple directory-traversal vulnerabilities because the application fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Exploiting these issues may allow a remote attacker to access any file on the affected webserver.

Version 1.2 is vulnerable to this issue; other versions may also be affected.

EditTag Multiple Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

An attacker can exploit these issues using a browser.

The following proof-of-concept URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/edittag/edittag.cgi?file=INJECT
http://www.example.com/edittag/edittag.pl?file=INJECT
http://www.example.com/edittag/edittag_mp.cgi?file=INJECT
http://www.example.com/edittag/edittag_mp.pl?file=INJECT

EditTag Multiple Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for these issues. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]:[email protected].

EditTag Multiple Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

References:

• EditTag Web Site (Greg Billock)
  
• Multiple bugs in EditTag ([email protected])