Epic Games Unreal Tournament 2003 2225 Win32 Manifest manifest.ini path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Epic Games Unreal Tournament 2003 2225 Win32. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file manifest.ini of the component Manifest. The manipulation with an unknown input 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 integrity. CVE summarizes:

Directory traversal vulnerability in manifest.ini in Unreal engine allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in a UMOD (Unreal MOD) file.

The weakness was released 12/31/2004 by Luigi Auriemma (Website). The advisory is shared for download at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-1958 since 05/04/2005. 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. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:manifest.ini it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (15942).

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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04/22/2004 🔍
12/31/2004 +253 days 🔍
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05/04/2005 +124 days 🔍
03/09/2015 +3596 days 🔍
07/16/2017 +860 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Researcher: Luigi Auriemma
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-1958 (🔍)
X-Force: 15942 - Unreal UMOD \
SecurityFocus: 10196 - Epic Games Unreal Tournament Engine UMOD Manifest.INI Remote Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 03/09/2015 15:52
Updated: 07/16/2017 13:36
Changes: 03/09/2015 15:52 (52), 07/16/2017 13:36 (7)
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