A vulnerability was found in Cisco Enterprise Content Delivery System (unknown version) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The software 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 software 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 Cisco Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted URL, aka Bug ID CSCuo90148.

The weakness was disclosed 12/19/2014 as CSCuo90148 as confirmed security notice (Website). The advisory is shared at tools.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-8019 since 10/08/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/09/2022). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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