phpWebFileManager index.php Directory Traversal Vulnerability

BID:9053

Info

phpWebFileManager index.php Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9053
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 17 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 17 2003 12:00AM
Credit: The disclosure of this issue has been credited to RusH security team <www.rsteam.ru>.
Vulnerable: Ondrej Jombik phpWebFileManager 2.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

phpWebFileManager index.php Directory Traversal Vulnerability

It has been reported that phpWebFileManager may be prone to a directory traversal vulnerability that may allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive information. The issue presents itself due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input. An attacker may traverse outside the server root directory by using '../' character sequences.

phpWebFileManager version 2.0.0 is reported to be prone to this issue, however other versions may be affected as well.

Exploit / POC

phpWebFileManager index.php Directory Traversal Vulnerability

The following proof of concept has been provided:

http://www.example.com/phpwebfilemgr/index.php?f=../../../

Solution / Fix

References

phpWebFileManager index.php Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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