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A vulnerability was found in Wolfram Research webMathematica 4.0 Amateur/4.0 Professional. It has been classified as problematic. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument MSPStoreID leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2002-0926. In addition, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Wolfram Research webMathematica 4.0 Amateur/4.0 Professional. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation of the argument MSPStoreID 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. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in Wolfram Research webMathematica 1.0.0 and 1.0.0.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the MSPStoreID parameter.

The weakness was presented 10/04/2002 by Andrew as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). It is possible to read the advisory at kb.cert.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-0926. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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 databases at X-Force (9373), Exploit-DB (21562) and SecurityFocus (BID 5035†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Wolfram Research

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• webMathematica

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• 4.0 Amateur
• 4.0 Professional

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