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Symantec Mail-Gear 1.0 Web interface Server Directory Traversal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ussr Labs)
Mon Nov 29 13:48:13 1999
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:00:36 -0300
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Symantec Mail-Gear 1.0 Web interface Server Directory Traversal
Vulnerability
PROBLEM
UssrLabs found a Symantec Mail-Gear 1.0 Web interface Server Directory
Traversal Vulnerability
Using the string '../' in a URL, an attacker can gain read access to
any file outside of the intended web-published filesystem directory
There is not much to expand on this one....
Example:
http://ServerIp:8003/Display?what=../../../../../autoexec.bat to show
autoexec.bat
Vendor Status:
Contacted
Vendor Url: http://www.symantec.com/urlabs/public/index.html
Program Url: http://www.symantec.com/urlabs/public/download/download.html
Credit: USSRLABS
SOLUTION
Upgrade to Symantec Mail-Gear 1.1
u n d e r g r o u n d s e c u r i t y s y s t e m s r e s e a r c h
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