Epic Games Unreal Tournament 3 UT3 WebAdmin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

BID:31272

Info

Epic Games Unreal Tournament 3 UT3 WebAdmin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 31272
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-4243
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Sep 21 2008 12:00AM
Updated: May 07 2015 05:23PM
Credit: Luigi Auriemma
Vulnerable: Epic Games UT3 WebAdmin 1.6
Epic Games UT3 WebAdmin 1.5
Epic Games UT3 WebAdmin 1.4
Epic Games UT3 WebAdmin 1.3
Not Vulnerable: Epic Games UT3 WebAdmin 1.7

Discussion

Epic Games Unreal Tournament 3 UT3 WebAdmin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

UT3 WebAdmin is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because the application fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.

Exploiting this issue will allow an attacker to view arbitrary local files outside of the web root. Information harvested may aid in launching further attacks.

This issue affects UT3 WebAdmin 1.3 to 1.6.

Exploit / POC

Epic Games Unreal Tournament 3 UT3 WebAdmin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue via readily available tools.

The following proof of concept is available:

GET /images/../../UTGame/Config/UTGame.INI HTTP/1.0

Solution / Fix

Epic Games Unreal Tournament 3 UT3 WebAdmin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has addressed this issue in WebAdmin 1.7. Please see the references for more information.


Epic Games UT3 WebAdmin 1.5

Epic Games UT3 WebAdmin 1.4

Epic Games UT3 WebAdmin 1.6

Epic Games UT3 WebAdmin 1.3

References

Epic Games Unreal Tournament 3 UT3 WebAdmin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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