Title: GeneWeb File Disclosure Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
GeneWeb is Web based genealogy software. It is available for a variety of platforms including Linux variant operating systems.
A file disclosure vulnerability has been reported for GeneWeb. Reportedly, GeneWeb does not adequately sanitize some input.
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to craft a specially formed URL that can cause geneweb to disclose the contents of arbitrary files on the vulnerable system.
Although unconfirmed, it is likely that an attacker can construct a URL consisting of dot-dot-slash (../) character sequences to obtain access to files outside of the document root. It should be noted that only files accessible by the geneweb server will be disclosed to the attacker.
Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to disclosure of sensitive information that may be useful in mounting further attacks on the host system.
This vulnerability affects GeneWeb versions 4.0.8 and earlier.
Affected Products:
- GeneWeb GeneWeb 4.0.0 5
- GeneWeb GeneWeb 4.0.0 6
- GeneWeb GeneWeb 4.0.0 7
- GeneWeb GeneWeb 4.0.0 8
References:
- GeneWeb: GeneWeb Home Page
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