TITLE:
WhatsUp Small Business Report Service Directory Traversal

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15500

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15500/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Ipswitch WhatsUp Small Business 2004
http://secunia.com/product/5163/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Ipswitch WhatsUp Small
Business 2004, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain
knowledge of sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to missing input validation in the
Report service (port 8022/tcp) and can be exploited to view the
contents of arbitrary files on the system via directory traversal
attacks.

Example:
http://[host]:8022/../../../../../[file]

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to the vulnerable service.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Independently discovered by:
* Dennis Rand, Cirt.dk.
* Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-14/

Cirt.dk:
http://cirt.dk/advisories/cirt-40-advisory.pdf

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