*Cloupia End-to-end FlexPod Management - Directory Traversal Vulnerability*** *Advisory Information* Advisory ID: KUSTODIAN-2011-011 Date published: Jan 13, 2011 *Vulnerability Information* Class: Directory Traversal Remotely Exploitable: Yes Locally Exploitable: Yes *Software Description* Provides end-to-end FlexPod management and automation across physical, virtual, compute, storage and network resources. Create internal private clouds rapidly with internal standards and procedures to maximize the infrastructure investments. Provides comprehensive physical and virtual infrastructure management and automation. Provides unified solution and single pane of glass for consistent and connected experience across private, public & hybrid clouds. *Vulnerability Description* jQuery File Tree is a configurable, AJAX file browser plugin for the jQuery javascript library utilised within the Cloupia application framework. Unauthenticated access to this module allows a remote attacker to browse the entire file system of the host server, beyond the realm of the web service itself. Cloupia are aware of this flaw and are releasing a patch to mitigate access. End users are urged to update immediately by contacting the vendor. http://www.cloupia.com * **Technical Description* The following process performed as an attacker to exploit this vulnerability would be as follows: The code for the jQuery File Tree Java-Server-Page file reads as follows: <%@ page import="java.io.File,java.io.FilenameFilter,java.util.Arrays"%> <% /** * jQuery File Tree JSP Connector * Version 1.0 * Copyright 2008 Joshua Gould * 21 April 2008 */ String dir = request.getParameter("dir"); if (dir == null) { return; } if (dir.charAt(dir.length()-1) == '\\') { dir = dir.substring(0, dir.length()-1) + "/"; } else if (dir.charAt(dir.length()-1) != '/') { dir += "/"; } if (new File(dir).exists()) { String[] files = new File(dir).list(new FilenameFilter() { public boolean accept(File dir, String name) { return name.charAt(0) != '.'; } }); Arrays.sort(files, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER); out.print(""); } %> *Credits* This vulnerability was discovered by Chris Rock and from Kustodian www.Kustodian.com. *Disclaimer* The contents of this advisory are copyright (c) Kustodian Security and may be distributed freely provided that no fee is charged for this distribution and proper credit is given.