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TITLE:
CA Unicenter Web Service Distributed Management Directory Traversal

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22229

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22229/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
CA Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/12199/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in CA Unicenter Web Services
Distributed Management (WSDM), which can be exploited by malicious
people to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the included Jetty
WebServer, which does not correctly check path names in HTTP requests.
This can be exploited to access arbitrary files on a vulnerable system
via directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to version
3.11. Other versions may also be affected.

Note: This vulnerability may be related to:
SA7178

SOLUTION:
Update to WSDM 3.11 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Oliver Karow and Richard Sammet, Symantec

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-October/049846.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA7178:
http://secunia.com/advisories/7178/

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