Portcullis Security Advisory - 08-002


Vulnerable System:

Affinium Campaign


Vulnerability Title:

The web application's create a new folder functionality is vulnerable to a directory traversal.


Vulnerability Discovery And Development:

Portcullis Security Testing Services.


Credit For Discovery:

Neil Kettle and Tim Brown - Portcullis Computer-Security Ltd.


Affected systems:

All known versions of Affinium Campaign; the vulnerability discovered was for version 7.2.1.0.55.


Details:

It is possible for an attacker to traverse the directory structure and break out of the application imposed sandbox by manipulating requests to create a new folder and altering the folder name to include ../../../../../../../../../, allowing the creation of directories in locations such as /tmp and /var/tmp. Furthermore, it was then possible to create files with arbitrary filenames in those locations.


Impact:

An attacker would be able to use this to create or modify configuration files in sensitive locations.


Exploit:

Exploit code is not required.


Vendor Status:

05/06/2008 - vendor informed
10/06/2008 - Vendor updated
11/06/2008 - Vendor responded via email
16/07/2008 - Vendor confirmed patches


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