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Title: H-Sphere Arbitrary File Disclosure Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

H-Sphere provides automation for web hosting across multiple servers. It is a commercial product that will run on Linux, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows 2000. It supports both Apache and IIS webservers.

H-Sphere does not filter '../' sequences from some requests, which has the potential to cause disclosure of sensitive information. A malicious user may construct a specially crafted web request which will allow them to break out of wwwroot and browse the filesystem at large. This is accomplished by using '../' character sequences as a value for the "template_name" variable.

For example:

http://www.target.com/some-path/psoft.hsphere.CP/some-path/?template_name=../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

http://www.target.com/shiva/psoft.hsphere.CP/admin/2628_0/?template_name=../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

Arbitrary web-readable files may be displayed by the attacker using this attack.

To successfully exploit this issue, the malicious user must have access to an account for a hosted website.

Affected Products:

  • Positive Software H-Sphere 1.5.0
  • Positive Software H-Sphere 2.0.0
  • Positive Software H-Sphere 2.0.05

References:

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