A vulnerability has been found in Reportico PHP Report Designer up to 1.0.3 (Reporting Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation of the argument xmlin with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in Reportico PHP Report Designer before 4.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the xmlin parameter.

The weakness was published 07/16/2014 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at secveritas.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2014-3777 since 05/19/2014. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.0.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at OSVDB (108612†). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Reporting Software

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• Reportico

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• PHP Report Designer

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• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3

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• open-source

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