Secunia Security Advisory - laurent gaffi
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TITLE:
Pickle "file" Directory Traversal Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24294
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24294/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Pickle
http://secunia.com/product/13562/
DESCRIPTION:
laurent gaffiƩ has reported a vulnerability in Pickle, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
Input passed to the "file" parameter in src/download.php is not
properly sanitised before being used to display files. This can be
exploited to download arbitrary files via directory traversal
attacks.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
laurent gaffiƩ
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-02/0464.html
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