Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2005-288 |
Date Published: | 24 Nov 2009 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Tuesday 24 November, 2009 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2005-2020 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | The 3Com Network Supervisor is a network management application that discovers, maps, and displays network links and IP devices. It monitors devices and connections for stress levels, set thresholds and various network events. The product is also capable of generating reports in various formats. A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the 3Com Network Supervisor product. The flaw is caused by insufficient sanitization of HTTP requests. This vulnerability allows an unauthorized user to read arbitrary files on the target host. The target will not exhibit any unusual behaviour as a result of this attack. A successful attack will result in potentially sensitive information being disclosed to an unprivileged user. The content of arbitrary files, specified by the attacker in the request will be served in the HTTP response. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information: 3Com Network Supervisor directory traversal