Vigil@nce - Novell Open Enterprise Server: directory traversal via Remote Manager
March 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories via Remote Manager of Novell
Open Enterprise Server, in order to read a file outside the
service root path.
Impacted products: OES.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 25/01/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Novell Open Enterprise 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 via Remote Manager
of Novell Open Enterprise Server, in order to read a file outside
the service root path.
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