Secunia Security Advisory - Bl0od3r has discovered a vulnerability in Formbankserver, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Formbankserver "Name" Directory Traversal Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23539
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23539/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Formbankserver 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/13085/
DESCRIPTION:
Bl0od3r has discovered a vulnerability in Formbankserver, which can
be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
Input passed to the "Name" parameter in formbankcgi.exe/AbfrageForm
is not properly sanitised before being used to display files. This
can be exploited to display arbitrary files via directory traversal
attacks.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.9. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Filter directory-traversal strings using a firewall or proxy with URL
filtering capabilities.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Bl0od3r
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