Vigil@nce - TYPO3 Media management: directory traversal
July 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of TYPO3 Media management, in
order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: TYPO3 Extensions not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 27/05/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Media management extension can be installed on TYPO3.
However, user’s data are directly inserted into an access path.
Sequences such as "/.." can thus be used to go in the upper
directory.
An attacker can therefore traverse directories of TYPO3 Media
management, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/TYPO3-Media-management-directory-traversal-19716