OSVDB ID: 23597

Title: Gallery Session Handling Class (GallerySession.class) Cookie Traversal Arbitrary File Manipulation

Info

Disclosure

Mar 02, 2006

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

Gallery contains a flaw that allows a remote attacker to delete files outside of the web path. The issue is due to the GallerySession.class not properly sanitizing user input, specifically directory traversal style attacks (../../) supplied via the sessionId variable(s).

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.0.3 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Gallery Team

Gallery

2.0
2.0.1
2.0.2

References

Credit

  • James Bercegay - securitygulftech.org - GulfTech Security Research


Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/23597