Reportico "xmlin" Directory Traversal Vulnerability


Description   SECVeritas has reported a vulnerability in Reportico, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.
Input passed via the "xmlin" parameter to certain scripts is not properly verified before being used to read files. This can be exploited to disclose the contents of arbitrary local XML files via directory traversal sequences.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 3.2 and prior.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Reportico 3.x
     
Solution   Update to version 3.3 or upgrade to version 4.0.
     
CVE   CVE-2014-3777
     
References   Reportico:
http://www.reportico.org/site/index.php
SECVeritas:
http://www.secveritas.com/secv-05-1402.html
     
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 
2014-07-15 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote