Vigil@nce - Joomla Akeeba Backup: directory traversal
May 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of Joomla Akeeba Backup, in
order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: Joomla Extensions not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 07/03/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Akeeba Backup extension can be installed on Joomla.
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 Joomla Akeeba
Backup, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Joomla-Akeeba-Backup-directory-traversal-22028