Vigil@nce - McAfee Web Gateway: directory traversal
March 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of McAfee Web Gateway, in
order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: McAfee Web Gateway
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 21/02/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The McAfee Web Gateway product offers a web service.
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 McAfee Web
Gateway, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/McAfee-Web-Gateway-directory-traversal-14297