Advantech Advantech Studio up to 6.1 NTWebServer.exe CreateFileW path traversal

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Advantech Advantech Studio up to 6.1. Affected by this issue is the function CreateFileW of the file NTWebServer.exe. Executing a manipulation can lead to path traversal. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2013-1627. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Advantech Advantech Studio up to 6.1 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function CreateFileW of the file NTWebServer.exe. The manipulation 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. CVE summarizes:

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in NTWebServer.exe in Indusoft Studio 7.0 and earlier and Advantech Studio 7.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in an argument to the sub_401A90 CreateFileW function.

The weakness was shared 03/11/2013 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at ics-cert.us-cert.gov. This vulnerability was named CVE-2013-1627 since 02/06/2013. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

It is possible to download the exploit 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 vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (23132). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Advantech

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• Advantech Studio

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• 6.0
• 6.1

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.advantech.com/

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