Sonatype Nexus Unspecified Directory Traversal Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been reported in Sonatype Nexus, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose sensitive information.
Certain unspecified input is not properly verified before being used to read files. This can be exploited to disclose the contents of arbitrary local files via directory traversal sequences.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.11.1-01.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Sonatype Nexus 2.x
     
Solution   Update to version 2.11.1-01.
     
CVE   CVE-2014-9389
     
References   http://www.sonatype.org/advisories/archive/2014-12-23-Nexus/
http://www.sonatype.org/nexus/2014/12/23/nexus-2-11-1-it-is-time-to-upgrade/
     
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 
2014-12-24 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote