A vulnerability was found in Interface-medien ibase 2.0/2.03. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the file download.php. The manipulation of the argument filename 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 confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in download.php in Interface Medien ibase 2.03 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename parameter.

The weakness was shared 02/25/2009 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-6288 since 02/25/2009. 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.

A public exploit has been developed by Dyshoo and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 216 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:download.php 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 (43983), Exploit-DB (6126), SecurityFocus (BID 30362†) and Secunia (SA31210†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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