IBM Tivoli Secureway Policy Director up to 3.7.1 path traversal

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in IBM Tivoli Secureway Policy Director up to 3.7.1. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation with the input %2E results in path traversal. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2001-0982. Moreover, an exploit is present. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in IBM Tivoli Secureway Policy Director up to 3.7.1 (Directory Service Software). Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with the input value %2E leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM Tivoli WebSEAL Policy Director 3.01 through 3.7.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or directories via encoded .. (dot dot) sequences containing "%2e" strings.

The weakness was disclosed 07/23/2001 by Patrik Karlsson as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2001-0982. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details and a exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (6884), SecurityFocus (BID 3080†) and OSVDB (1908†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: ibm.com

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Patrik Karlsson
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2001-0982 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2001-0982
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-17082
X-Force: 6884 - IBM Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director URL encoded \
SecurityFocus: 3080 - IBM Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director Directory Traversal Vulnerability
OSVDB: 1908 - IBM Tivoli SecureWay WebSEAL Proxy Policy Director Encoded Traversal Arbitrary File Access

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 07/07/2014 15:55
Changes: 07/07/2014 15:55 (63)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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