From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Jun 28 2004 - 09:47:12 CDT

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TITLE:
Confixx "/root" Directory Information Disclosure Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11953

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11953/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Confixx Pro 3
http://secunia.com/product/3174/
Confixx Pro 2
http://secunia.com/product/3175/

DESCRIPTION:
Dirk Pirschel has reported a vulnerability in Confixx, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious users to gain knowledge of
sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the backup script.
This can be exploited to disclose the content of arbitrary files in
the "/root" directory by passing a specially crafted backup request
via the web interface.

SOLUTION:
Disable the backup script.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dirk Pirschel

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