J-Security Center

Title: Faust Informatics Freestyle Chat Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Severity: HIGH

Description:

Freestyle Chat server from Faust Informatics incorporates interactive chat functionality into websites.

Versions of Freestyle Chat are vulnerable to directory traversal attacks. This can allow a remote user to request files from outside the normal webserver directory scope (ie ../../../scandisk.log).

Properly exploited, this could provide information useful in further attacks on the vulnerable host.

Affected Products:

  • Faust Informatics Freestyle Chat 4.1.0 SR2

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