J-Security Center

Title: SolutionScripts Home Free search.cgi Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

Home Free is a suite of Perl cgi scripts that allow a website to support user contributions of various types. One of the scripts, search.cgi, accepts a parameter called letter which can be any text string. The supplied argument can contain the '../' string, which the script will process. This can be used to obtain directory listings and the first line of files outside of the intended web filesystem.

Affected Products:

  • Solution Scripts Home Free 1.0.0

References:

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