PlantVisor Enhanced Directory Traversal Vulnerability


Description   Luigi Auriemma has discovered a vulnerability in PlantVisor Enhanced, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
Input appended to the URL is not properly verified before being used to read files. This can be exploited to disclose the contents of arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.4.4. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
PlantVisor Enhanced 2.x
     
Solution   Filter malicious characters and character sequences using a proxy.
     
CVE   CVE-2011-3487
     
References   Luigi Auriemma:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/plantvisor_1-adv.txt
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
Misc : Directory traversal - parameter starting with ../
3.2.0
Directory traversal using ..\..
3.2.0
Directory traversal
3.2.0
Directory traversal backward root folder
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2011-09-13 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local