Vigil@nce - Hiawatha: directory traversal via AllowDotFiles
May 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading.
Provenance: internet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 06/03/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories via AllowDotFiles of
Hiawatha, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Hiawatha-directory-traversal-via-AllowDotFiles-28672