Barracuda Products Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been identified in Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall, which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "/cgi-mod/view_help.cgi" script when processing the "locale" parameter, which could be exploited to conduct directory traversal attacks and disclose the contents of arbitrary files (e.g. "config.snapshot").
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Barracuda IM Firewall version 3.4.01.004 and priorBarracuda Link Balancer version 2.1.1.010 and priorBarracuda Load Balancer version 3.3.1.005 and priorBarracuda Message Archiver version 2.2.1.005 and priorBarracuda Spam & Virus Firewall version 4.1.2.006 and priorBarracuda SSL VPN version 1.7.2.004 and priorBarracuda Web Application Firewall version 7.4.0.022 and priorBarracuda Web Filter version 4.3.0.013 and prior
     
Solution   Upgrade to security definition version 2.0.4 (2010-09-28).
     
CVE  
     
References   http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/support/tech_alert.php
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15130/
     
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 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2010-09-28 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote