Subversion for Windows Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

BID:25468

Info

Subversion for Windows Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 25468
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2007-3846
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 28 2007 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 04 2007 06:31PM
Credit: Nils Durner and Christian Grothoff, Colorado Research Institute for Security and Privacy are credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4.4
TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4.3
TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4.2
TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4.1
TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4
TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.3.5
TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.2.6
TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.1.7
Subversion Subversion 1.4.4
Subversion Subversion 1.4.3
Subversion Subversion 1.4.2
Subversion Subversion 1.4.1
Subversion Subversion 1.4
Subversion Subversion 1.3.2
Subversion Subversion 1.3.1
Subversion Subversion 1.3
Subversion Subversion 1.2.3
Subversion Subversion 1.2.1
Subversion Subversion 1.2
Subversion Subversion 1.1.4
Subversion Subversion 1.1.3
Subversion Subversion 1.1.2
Subversion Subversion 1.1.1
Subversion Subversion 1.1 .0-rc4
Subversion Subversion 1.1 .0-rc3
Subversion Subversion 1.1 .0-rc2
Subversion Subversion 1.1 .0-rc1
Subversion Subversion 1.1
Subversion Subversion 1.0.8
Subversion Subversion 1.0.7
Subversion Subversion 1.0.6
Subversion Subversion 1.0.5
Subversion Subversion 1.0.4
Subversion Subversion 1.0.3
Subversion Subversion 1.0.2
Subversion Subversion 1.0.1
Subversion Subversion 1.0
Subversion Subversion 0.27
+ Redhat Linux 9.0 i386
Not Vulnerable: TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4.5
Subversion Subversion 1.4.5

Discussion

Subversion for Windows Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Subversion is prone to a remote directory-traversal vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to write arbitrary data to arbitrary locations on unsuspecting users' computers.

This issue affects Subversion running on Microsoft Windows and on any other platform where directory-separator characters are '\' or characters other than '/'.

Versions prior to Subversion 1.4.5 are vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

Subversion for Windows Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Attackers exploit this issue by using standard Subversion client utilities.

Solution / Fix

Subversion for Windows Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor released Subversion 1.4.5 to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


Subversion Subversion 0.27

Subversion Subversion 1.0

Subversion Subversion 1.0.1

Subversion Subversion 1.0.2

Subversion Subversion 1.0.3

Subversion Subversion 1.0.4

Subversion Subversion 1.0.5

Subversion Subversion 1.0.6

Subversion Subversion 1.0.7

Subversion Subversion 1.0.8

Subversion Subversion 1.1

Subversion Subversion 1.1 .0-rc2

Subversion Subversion 1.1 .0-rc3

Subversion Subversion 1.1 .0-rc4

Subversion Subversion 1.1 .0-rc1

Subversion Subversion 1.1.1

Subversion Subversion 1.1.2

Subversion Subversion 1.1.3

Subversion Subversion 1.1.4

TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.1.7

Subversion Subversion 1.2

Subversion Subversion 1.2.1

Subversion Subversion 1.2.3

TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.2.6

Subversion Subversion 1.3

Subversion Subversion 1.3.1

Subversion Subversion 1.3.2

TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.3.5

TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4

Subversion Subversion 1.4

Subversion Subversion 1.4.1

TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4.1

TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4.2

Subversion Subversion 1.4.2

Subversion Subversion 1.4.3

TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4.3

TortoiseSVN TortoiseSVN 1.4.4

Subversion Subversion 1.4.4

References

Subversion for Windows Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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