Blue Coat Reporter Directory Traversal Vulnerability


Description   Alejandro Hernandez has reported a vulnerability in Blue Coat Reporter, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
Certain input is not properly verified before being used to display files. This can be exploited to disclose the contents of arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences.
The vulnerability is reported in version 8.x running on Windows.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Blue Coat Reporter 8.x
     
Solution   Upgrade to version 9.3.1.1
     
CVE  
     
References   Blue Coat:
https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&
id=SA60
nitr0us:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17883/
     
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
Misc : Local File Inclusion - suspicious /etc/passwd found in URL
3.5.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2011-09-07 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local