Vigil@nce - IBM Tivoli/Security Directory Server: directory traversal
September 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of IBM Tivoli/Security
Directory Server, in order to read a file outside the service root
path.
Impacted products: Security Directory Server, Tivoli Directory
Server.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 12/07/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The IBM Tivoli/Security Directory Server product offers a web
service.
However, user’s data are directly inserted in an access path.
Sequences such as "/.." can thus be used to go in the upper
directory.
An attacker can therefore traverse directories of IBM
Tivoli/Security Directory Server, in order to read a file outside
the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/IBM-Tivoli-Security-Directory-Server-directory-traversal-20068