Tivoli Access Manager Plugin for Web Servers Directory Traversal Vulnerability

vendor:

Tivoli Access Manager Plugin for Web Servers

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Directory Traversal

CWE

Product Name: Tivoli Access Manager Plugin for Web Servers

Affected Version From: 5.1.0.10

Affected Version To: 6.0.0

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:ibm:tivoli_access_manager_plugin_for_web_servers

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2005

Tivoli Access Manager Plugin for Web Servers Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Tivoli Access Manager Plugin for Web Servers is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve arbitrary files from the vulnerable system in the context of the webserver process. Information obtained may aid in further attacks; other attacks are also possible. Note that the attacker must be an authenticated user to exploit this vulnerability.

Mitigation:

Ensure that user-supplied input is properly sanitized before being used.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16494/info

Tivoli Access Manager Plugin for Web Servers is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve arbitrary files from the vulnerable system in the context of the webserver process. Information obtained may aid in further attacks; other attacks are also possible.

Note that the attacker must be an authenticated user to exploit this vulnerability.

Versions 5.1.0.10 and 6.0.0 are vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 

http://www.example.com/pkmslogout?filename=../../../../../../../etc/passwd