UltraBoard allows attackers to access files on the Web server
| ultraboard-printabletopic-fileread (4408) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
UltraBoard could allow a remote attacker to access any file on the Web server. UltraBoard is a Web bulletin board system written in Perl. A remote attacker can open any file on the Web server running UltraBoard with the permissions of the Web server.
Platforms Affected:
- UltraScripts, UltraBoard 1.x
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 15, 2008.
Consequences:
File Manipulation
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Wed May 03 2000 - 04:13:16 CDT, Fun with UltraBoard V1.6X at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0028.html.
- UltraScripts Web site, UltraBoard Homepage at http://www.ub2k.com/.
- BID-1164: UltraBoard Directory Traversal Vulnerability
- CVE-2000-0332: UltraBoard.pl or UltraBoard.cgi CGI scripts in UltraBoard 1.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a pathname string that includes a dot dot (..) and ends with a null byte.
- OSVDB ID: 1309: UltraBoard UltraBoard.pl Arbitrary File Access
- OSVDB ID: 4065: UltraBoard UltraBoard.cgi Arbitrary File Access
Reported:
May 03, 2000
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