VYPR

CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

BaseStableLikelihood: High

Description

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.

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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-126 · CAPEC-64 · CAPEC-76 · CAPEC-78 · CAPEC-79

CVEs mapped to this weakness (3,719)

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CVE-2007-45450.030.05Aug 27, 2007Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Unreal Commander 0.92 build 565 and 573 allow user-assisted remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a filename within a (1) ZIP or (2) RAR archive.
CVE-2007-44570.030.02Aug 21, 2007Directory traversal vulnerability in forumreply.php in Dalai Forum 1.1 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the chemin parameter.
CVE-2007-44200.030.05Aug 18, 2007Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in officeviewer.ocx 5.1.199.1 in EDraw Office Viewer Component 5.1 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname in the second argument to the HttpDownloadFile method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3168 and CVE-2007-3169.
CVE-2007-40620.030.04Jul 30, 2007The SCANCTRL.ScanCtrlCtrl.1 ActiveX control in scan.dll in Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via unspecified vectors involving the deleteNessusRC method, probably a directory traversal vulnerability.
CVE-2007-39360.030.04Jul 21, 2007Directory traversal vulnerability in admin/filebrowser.asp in A-shop 0.70 and earlier, and possibly 0.71, allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via unspecified filename references in the delfiles parameter.
CVE-2007-04500.030.89Mar 16, 2007Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat 5.x before 5.5.22 and 6.x before 6.0.10, when using certain proxy modules (mod_proxy, mod_rewrite, mod_jk), allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence with combinations of (1) "/" (slash), (2) "\" (backslash), and (3) URL-encoded backslash (%5C) characters in the URL, which are valid separators in Tomcat but not in Apache.
CVE-2006-71170.030.05Mar 6, 2007Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Kubix 0.7 and earlier allow remote attackers to (1) include and execute arbitrary local files via ".." sequences in the theme cookie to index.php, which is not properly handled by includes/head.php; and (2) read arbitrary files via ".." sequences in the file parameter in an add_dl action to adm_index.php, as demonstrated by reading connect.php.
CVE-2006-71120.030.04Mar 6, 2007Directory traversal vulnerability in error.php in MD-Pro 1.0.76 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to read and include arbitrary files via the PNSVlang cookie, as demonstrated by uploading a GIF image using AddDownload or injecting PHP code into a log file, then accessing it.
CVE-2007-11490.030.05Mar 2, 2007Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in LoveCMS 1.4 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in (1) the step parameter to install/index.php or (2) the load parameter to the top-level URI.
CVE-2007-11520.030.05Mar 2, 2007Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Pyrophobia 2.1.3.1 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) act or (2) pid parameter to the top-level URI (index.php), or the (3) action parameter to admin/index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
CVE-2007-11400.030.05Mar 2, 2007Directory traversal vulnerability in edit.php in pheap allows remote attackers to read and modify arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename parameter.
CVE-2007-11380.030.04Mar 2, 2007Absolute path traversal vulnerability in list_main_pages.php in Cromosoft Simple Plantilla PHP (SPP) allows remote attackers to list arbitrary directories, and read arbitrary files, via an absolute pathname in the nfolder parameter.
CVE-2007-10310.030.05Feb 21, 2007Directory traversal vulnerability in include/db_conn.php in SpoonLabs Vivvo Article Management CMS 3.4 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via the root parameter.
CVE-2006-62420.030.04Dec 3, 2006Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Serendipity 1.0.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to read or include arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the serendipity[charset] parameter in (1) include/lang.inc.php; or to plugins/ scripts (2) serendipity_event_bbcode/serendipity_event_bbcode.php, (3) serendipity_event_browsercompatibility/serendipity_event_browsercompatibility.php, (4) serendipity_event_contentrewrite/serendipity_event_contentrewrite.php, (5) serendipity_event_creativecommons/serendipity_event_creativecommons.php, (6) serendipity_event_emoticate/serendipity_event_emoticate.php, (7) serendipity_event_entryproperties/serendipity_event_entryproperties.php, (8) serendipity_event_karma/serendipity_event_karma.php, (9) serendipity_event_livesearch/serendipity_event_livesearch.php, (10) serendipity_event_mailer/serendipity_event_mailer.php, (11) serendipity_event_nl2br/serendipity_event_nl2br.php, (12) serendipity_event_s9ymarkup/serendipity_event_s9ymarkup.php, (13) serendipity_event_searchhighlight/serendipity_event_searchhighlight.php, (14) serendipity_event_spamblock/serendipity_event_spamblock.php, (15) serendipity_event_spartacus/serendipity_event_spartacus.php, (16) serendipity_event_statistics/serendipity_plugin_statistics.php, (17) serendipity_event_templatechooser/serendipity_event_templatechooser.php, (18) serendipity_event_textile/serendipity_event_textile.php, (19) serendipity_event_textwiki/serendipity_event_textwiki.php, (20) serendipity_event_trackexits/serendipity_event_trackexits.php, (21) serendipity_event_weblogping/serendipity_event_weblogping.php, (22) serendipity_event_xhtmlcleanup/serendipity_event_xhtmlcleanup.php, (23) serendipity_plugin_comments/serendipity_plugin_comments.php, (24) serendipity_plugin_creativecommons/serendipity_plugin_creativecommons.php, (25) serendipity_plugin_entrylinks/serendipity_plugin_entrylinks.php, (26) serendipity_plugin_eventwrapper/serendipity_plugin_eventwrapper.php, (27) serendipity_plugin_history/serendipity_plugin_history.php, (28) serendipity_plugin_recententries/serendipity_plugin_recententries.php, (29) serendipity_plugin_remoterss/serendipity_plugin_remoterss.php, (30) serendipity_plugin_shoutbox/serendipity_plugin_shoutbox.php, and and (31) serendipity_plugin_templatedropdown/serendipity_plugin_templatedropdown.php.
CVE-2006-27580.030.02Jun 2, 2006Directory traversal vulnerability in jetty 6.0.x (jetty6) beta16 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e%5c (encoded ../) in the URL. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2005-3747.
CVE-2006-25160.030.05May 22, 2006mainfile.php in XOOPS 2.0.13.2 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to overwrite variables such as $xoopsOption['nocommon'] and conduct directory traversal attacks or include PHP files via (1) xoopsConfig[language] to misc.php or (2) xoopsConfig[theme_set] to index.php, as demonstrated by injecting PHP sequences into a log file.
CVE-2006-09760.030.03Mar 3, 2006Directory traversal vulnerability in scan_lang_insert.php in Boris Herbiniere-Seve SPiD 1.3.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the lang parameter.
CVE-2006-08710.030.01Feb 24, 2006Directory traversal vulnerability in the _setTemplate function in Mambo 4.5.3, 4.5.3h, and possibly earlier versions allows remote attackers to read and include arbitrary files via the mos_change_template parameter. NOTE: CVE-2006-1794 has been assigned to the SQL injection vector.
CVE-2005-20330.030.03Jun 20, 2005Directory traversal vulnerability in folderview.asp for Blue-Collar Productions i-Gallery 3.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and directories via the folder parameter.
CVE-2005-02530.030.06May 2, 2005Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php for BibORB 1.3.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a Delete action and .. (dot dot) sequences in the database_name parameter.