Title : PostNuke Blocks Module "func" Directory Traversal Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0553 CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-05-17
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in PostNuke, which may be exploited by attackers to read arbitrary files outside of the webroot directory. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the Blocks Module when handling a specially crafted "func" variable containing "..\" sequences, which may be exploited remotely to conduct directory traversal attacks.
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