A vulnerability was found in vtiger CRM 5.1.0 (Customer Relationship Management System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument module_name 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. CVE summarizes:

Directory traversal vulnerability in modules/com_vtiger_workflow/sortfieldsjson.php in vtiger CRM 5.1.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the module_name parameter.

The weakness was released 09/06/2012 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-4867 since 09/06/2012. 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.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional.

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 vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (18635).

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• Customer Relationship Management System

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• vtiger

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• CRM

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• 5.1.0

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• open-source

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