ACS/ACES URL directory traversal
| acs-url-directory-traversal (31613) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Ars Digita Community System (ACS) and Ars Digita Community Education Solution (ACES) could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing URL-encoded "dot dot" sequences (.%252e/) to view arbitrary files on the system.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 5 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Complete |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | None |
| Temporal Score: | 4.1 |
| Exploitability: | High |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Uncorroborated |
Consequences:
Obtain Information
Remedy:
For ACS:
Product no longer supported by the vendor. Upgrade to any version of OpenACS, available from the OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) Web site. See References.
For ACES:
Product no longer supported by vendor.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Jan 18 2007 - 14:20:53 CST : Directory Traversal in ArsDigita Community System.
- OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) Web site: OpenACS Home.
- BID-22121: ArsDigita Community System Directory Traversal Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-0389: Directory traversal vulnerability in ArsDigita Community System (ACS) 3.4.10 and earlier, and ArsDigita Community Education Solution (ACES) 1.1, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via .%252e/ (double-encoded dot dot slash) sequences in the URI.
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-0286: ArsDigita Community System Request Handling Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Ars Digita Ars Digita Community Education Solution 1.1
- Ars Digita Ars Digita Community System (ACS) 3.4.9 & prior
Reported:
Jan 18, 2007
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