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Gallery
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SecurityFocus
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Arbitrary File Viewing
22
CWE
Product Name: Gallery
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2002

Bharat Mediratta Gallery Arbitrary File Viewing Vulnerability

Bharat Mediratta Gallery is a free, open source web-based photo album which may be used as an add-on for the PHPNuke web portal. Due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input, it is be possible to view arbitrary web-readable files via a specially crafted web request which contains '../' sequences. This issue may allow a remote attacker to gather sensitive information which may be used in directed and organized attacks against a host running the Gallery software.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to prevent attackers from accessing arbitrary files.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3554/info

Bharat Mediratta Gallery is a free, open source web-based photo album which may be used as an add-on for the PHPNuke web portal.

Due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input, it is be possible to view arbitrary web-readable files via a specially crafted web request which contains '../' sequences.

This issue may allow a remote attacker to gather sensitive information which may be used in directed and organized attacks against a host running the Gallery software.

http://www.somehost.com/modules.php?set_albumName=album01&id=aaw&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=../../../../../../etc/hosts