Title: AOLserver Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
AOLserver is a multithreaded web server by America Online. AOLserver is designed for larger scale web sites and supports Tcl scripting language.
A remote user could gain read access to directories outside the root directory. Requesting a specially crafted URL composed of '.../' sequences to a host running AOLserver will disclose an arbitrary directory. This vulnerability could enable an attacker to gain read access to various files residing on the target machine.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to the disclosure of sensitive information and possibly assist in further attacks against the victim.
Affected Products:
- AOL AOLserver 3.2.0 Win32
References:
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