From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 16:11:13 CST

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TITLE:
DansGuardian Webmin Module Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10592

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10592/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
DansGuardian Webmin Module 0.x

DESCRIPTION:
FIST has reported a vulnerability in the DansGuardian Webmin Module,
allowing malicious people to conduct directory traversal attacks.

The problem is that the "edit.cgi" script allows users to supply
paths to arbitrary files in the "file" parameter. This can be
exploited to view and edit any file, which Webmin has got access to.

The vulnerability affects versions prior to 0.5.9.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.5.9.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51969

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
FIST

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=869509&group_id=51969&atid=465236

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