Unreal Tournament 3 WebAdmin Directory Traversal Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been identified in Unreal Tournament 3 WebAdmin, 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 when processing user-supplied HTTP requests, which could be exploited to download arbitrary files from an affected server via directory traversal attacks.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Unreal Tournament 3 WebAdmin versions prior to 1.7
     
Solution   Upgrade to Unreal Tournament 3 WebAdmin version 1.7 : http://ut3webadmin.elmuerte.com/#downloads
     
CVE   CVE-2008-4243
     
References   http://aluigi.org/adv/ut3webown-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 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2008-09-22 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote