A vulnerability was found in Gafware CFXImage 1.6.4/1.6.6. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file showtemp.cfm. The manipulation of the argument FILE with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

showtemp.cfm for Gafware CFXImage 1.6.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via (1) a .. or (2) a C: style pathname in the FILE parameter.

The weakness was presented 10/04/2002 by Richard Brain (Website). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2002-0879. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:showtemp.cfm it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (9196), Exploit-DB (21493) and SecurityFocus (BID 4882†).

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