Apexis APM-J601-WS up to 17.35.2.48 path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Apexis APM-J601-WS up to 17.35.2.48. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-3972. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apexis APM-J601-WS up to 17.35.2.48. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. 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 confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Directory traversal vulnerability in Apexis APM-J601-WS cameras with firmware before 17.35.2.49 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

The bug was discovered 03/17/2014. The weakness was shared 02/19/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at fortiguard.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-3972 since 06/04/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1435 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 17.35.2.49 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Apexis

Name

• APM-J601-WS

Version

• 17.35.2.0
• 17.35.2.1
• 17.35.2.2
• 17.35.2.3
• 17.35.2.4
• 17.35.2.5
• 17.35.2.6
• 17.35.2.7
• 17.35.2.8
• 17.35.2.9
• 17.35.2.10
• 17.35.2.11
• 17.35.2.12
• 17.35.2.13
• 17.35.2.14
• 17.35.2.15
• 17.35.2.16
• 17.35.2.17
• 17.35.2.18
• 17.35.2.19
• 17.35.2.20
• 17.35.2.21
• 17.35.2.22
• 17.35.2.23
• 17.35.2.24
• 17.35.2.25
• 17.35.2.26
• 17.35.2.27
• 17.35.2.28
• 17.35.2.29
• 17.35.2.30
• 17.35.2.31
• 17.35.2.32
• 17.35.2.33
• 17.35.2.34
• 17.35.2.35
• 17.35.2.36
• 17.35.2.37
• 17.35.2.38
• 17.35.2.39
• 17.35.2.40
• 17.35.2.41
• 17.35.2.42
• 17.35.2.43
• 17.35.2.44
• 17.35.2.45
• 17.35.2.46
• 17.35.2.47
• 17.35.2.48

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