Accellion Secure File Transfer Web Application Is Vulnerable To Directory
Traversal.
Portcullis Security Advisory - 09-010
Vulnerable System:
Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance
Vulnerability Title:
Accellion Secure File Transfer Web Application Is Vulnerable To Directory
Traversal.
Vulnerability Discovery And Development:
Portcullis Security Testing Services.
Credit For Discovery:
Tim Brown - Portcullis Computer Security Ltd.
Affected systems:
All known versions of Secure File Transfer Appliance; the vulnerability
discovered was for version FTA_7_0_259.
Details:
Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance is an appliance based solution
used for receiving and delivering large files. It does this by allowing
users to upload and download files via https. It is generally deployed in a
DMZ to allow users access from the local network as well as the Internet.
It is based on a customised Redhat OS running a web application which
provides the user interface.
It is possible to pass a value in the template parameter of requests to the
user interface web application which causes arbitrary files to be returned
from outside of the web root as follows:
03/07/2009 - Vendor advised thay they released a software update with
version 8_0_105
04/11/2009 - Publication
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