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>> DirectContact HTTP Request Handling Directory Traversal Vulnerability
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Title : DirectContact HTTP Request Handling Directory Traversal Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0761
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-02-28
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A vulnerability has been identified in DirectContact, which may be exploited by remote attackers to access arbitrary files outside of the web root directory. This flaw is due to an input validation error when processing specially crafted HTTP requests containing the "../" or "..\" sequences, which could be exploited by remote attackers to access and read the contents of arbitrary files on a vulnerable system.
Affected Products
DirectContact version 0.3b and prior
Solution
Upgrade to DirectContact version 0.3c :
http://reyero.info/dc/
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0761
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/6594
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Donato Ferrante
ChangeLog
2006-02-28 : Initial release
2006-03-14 : Updated Solution
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