Check Point Advisories

Brocade Network Advisor DashboardFileReceiveServlet filename Directory Traversal (CVE-2016-8205)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2017-0148
Date Published: 27 Feb 2017
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Monday 27 February, 2017
Source: Brocade
Industry Reference:CVE-2016-8205
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? Brocade Network Advisor prior to 14.0.3
Brocade Network Advisor prior to 14.1.1
Vulnerability Description A directory traversal vulnerabilities exists in Brocade Network Advisor. The vulnerability is due to lack of authentication and insufficient input validation in the DashboardFileReceiveServlet servlet of dashboard-fileupload. war when processing HTTP multipart form requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious HTTP request to the target system. Successful exploitation could result in arbitrary code execution with privileges of the SYSTEM.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Brocade Network Advisor DashboardFileReceiveServlet filename Directory Traversal protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Brocade Network Advisor DashboardFileReceiveServlet filename Directory Traversal

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