Vigil@nce - Joomla Virtuemart: directory traversal
February 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of Joomla Virtuemart, in
order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: Joomla Extensions
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 23/01/2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Virtuemart extension can be installed on Joomla.
However, user’s data are directly inserted in an access path.
Sequences such as "/.." can thus be used to go in the upper
directory.
An attacker can therefore traverse directories of Joomla
Virtuemart, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Joomla-Virtuemart-directory-traversal-16039