6748 : Business Objects Crystal Reports/Enterprise crystalimagehandler.aspx Arbitrary File Manipulation
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Timeline

Discovery Date Disclosure Date Exploit Publish Date
2004-04-20 2004-06-08 2004-06-08
Time to Exploit
49 days

Description

Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise contain a flaw that allows a remote attacker to access or delete files outside of the web path. The issue is due to the crystalimagehandler.aspx script not properly sanitizing user input, specifically traversal style attacks (../../) supplied via the "dynamicimage" variable.

Classification

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

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Business Objects has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Business Objects
Watch-list
Crystal Enterprise
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10
9
Crystal Reports
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10
9

References

Tools & Filters

Snort

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Manual Testing Notes

Credit

  • Moran Surf - adcimperva.com - Imperva Application Defense Center
  • Amichai Shulman - adcimperva.com - Imperva Application Defense Center

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

Access_vector_2 Access_complexity_2 Authentication_2 Confidentiality_impact_1 Integrity_impact_1 Availability_impact_1

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