A vulnerability was found in Bytehoard 0.7 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the file index.php. The manipulation of the argument infolder with the input value .. leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in Bytehoard 0.7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the infolder parameter.

The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2003 with Intel (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2003-1499 since 10/25/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (13456), Exploit-DB (23261) and SecurityFocus (BID 8850†).

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