PR10-01: Unauthenticated File Retrieval (traversal) within 3Com* iMC (Intelligent Management Center)

vendor:

Intelligent Management Center

by:

Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

Directory Traversal

CWE

Product Name: Intelligent Management Center

Affected Version From: 3.3.9 R2 606 29 Sept 2009

Affected Version To: 3.3 SP1 R2 606 15 Dec 2009

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:3com:intelligent_management_center

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows, Microsoft SQL 2005

2010

PR10-01: Unauthenticated File Retrieval (traversal) within 3Com* iMC (Intelligent Management Center)

3Com's iMC (Intelligent Management Centre) provides professional management of 3Com and third party network devices, the IMC is normally accessed using a web browser over port 8080.Procheckup has discovered that the IMC management console is vulnerable to a unauthenticated directory traversal attack within the reporting functionality. Directory traversal allows Files to be retrieved from the target server outside the webroot, provided that the location on the file system is known. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability.

Mitigation:

Ensure that at least patch 3.3SP2 (R2606P13) has been installed.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

PR10-01: Unauthenticated File Retrieval (traversal) within 3Com* iMC (Intelligent Management Center)

* On the 12th April 2010 Hewlett Packard completed its acquisition of 3Com

Vulnerability found: 30th January 2010

Vendor informed: 1st February 2010

Vulnerability fixed: 13th May 2010

Severity: High

Description: 

3Com's iMC (Intelligent Management Centre) provides professional management of 3Com and third party network devices, the IMC is normally accessed using a web browser over port 8080.Procheckup has discovered that the IMC management console is vulnerable to a unauthenticated directory traversal attack within the reporting functionality.

Note: tested on 3COM IMC running on Windows and Microsoft SQL 2005

Version 3.3.9   R2 606 29 Sept 2009
Version 3.3 SP1 R2 606 15 Dec 2009


The following demonstrate the traversal flaw:

1) Vulnerable to directory traversal


http://target-domain.foo:8080/imc/report/DownloadReportSource?dirType=webapp&fileDir=reports&fileName=reportParaExample.xml..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\windows\win.ini


http://target-domain.foo:8080/imc/report/DownloadReportSource?dirType=webapp&fileDir=reports..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\windows\win.ini%00reports&fileName=reportParaExample.xml

Consequences: 
Directory traversal allows Files to be retrieved from the target server outside the webroot, provided that the location on the file system is known. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. 


Fix:
Ensure that at least patch 3.3SP2 (R2606P13) has been installed. 


References: 

http://www.procheckup.com/Vulnerabilities.php



Credits: Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)


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