Red Hat Interchange Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

BID:5453

Info

Red Hat Interchange Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5453
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 13 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 13 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Vulnerability first detailed in the product changelog.
Vulnerable: Redhat Interchange 4.8.5
Redhat Interchange 4.8.4
Redhat Interchange 4.8.3
+ Debian Linux 3.0
Redhat Interchange 4.8.2
Redhat Interchange 4.8.1
Not Vulnerable: Redhat Interchange 4.8.6

Discussion

Red Hat Interchange Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported for Interchange 4.8.5 and earlier. Reportedly, Interchange may disclose contents of files to attackers.

The vulnerability occurs due to the placement of the 'doc' folder. Reportedly, the folder will be installed as follows: <INTERCHANGE_ROOT>/doc. This folder, by default, contains Interchange man pages. This vulnerability is only exploitable when the Interchange service runs in INET (Internet service) mode.

An attacker may exploit this vulnerability to the contents of restricted files accessible to the Interchange process.

It has been reported that this issue may be exploited through a '../' directory traversal sequence in a HTTP request to the vulnerable server.

Exploit / POC

Red Hat Interchange Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

This vulnerability may be exploited with a web browser. The following example has been submitted:

http://www.domain.com:7786/../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

Solution / Fix

Red Hat Interchange Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

Solution:
The following upgrades are available:


Redhat Interchange 4.8.1

Redhat Interchange 4.8.2

Redhat Interchange 4.8.3

Redhat Interchange 4.8.4

Redhat Interchange 4.8.5

References

Red Hat Interchange Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

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