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Directory Traversal in Frigate 3 built-in FTP client
From: advisory () htbridge ch
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:53:59 +0200 (CEST)
Vulnerability ID: HTB22526 Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/directory_traversal_in_frigate_3_built_in_ftp_client.html Product: Frigate 3 built-in FTP client Vendor: WinFrigate ( http://www.frigate3.com/ ) Vulnerable Version: 3.36 and Probably Prior Versions Vendor Notification: 22 July 2010 Vulnerability Type: Directory Traversal Vulnerability Status: Not Fixed, Vendor Alerted, Awaiting Vendor Response Risk level: High Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (http://www.htbridge.ch/) Vulnerability Details: When exploited, this vulnerability allows an anonymous attacker to write files to specified locations on a user's system. The FTP client does not properly sanitise filenames containing directory traversal sequences that are received from an FTP server, for example file named as "..\..\..\..\..\..\..\somefile.exe". By tricking a user to download a directory from a malicious FTP server that contains files with backslash directory traversal sequences in their filenames, an attacker can potentially write files into a user's Startup folder to execute malicious code when the user logs on.
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