PolDoc Document Management System Directory Traversal Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been identified in PDDMS (PolDoc Document Management System), which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized read access to arbitrary files. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "download_file.php" script that does not validate the "filename" parameter, which could be exploited by malicious people to download arbitrary files from a vulnerable server via directory traversal attacks.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
PDDMS (PolDoc Document Management System) version 0.96 and prior
     
Solution  
     
CVE   CVE-2007-6400
     
References  
     
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
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2007-12-11 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote