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>> Mole "dirn" and "fname" Parameters Remote File Disclosure Vulnerability
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Title : Mole "dirn" and "fname" Parameters Remote File Disclosure Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1141
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1857
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-08
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A vulnerability has been identified in Mole, which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. This issue is due to input validation errors in the "viewsource.php" script that does not validate the "dirn" and "fname" parameters before being passed as an argument to a "highlight_file()" call, which could be exploited to display the contents of arbitrary files.
Affected Products
Mole version 2.1.0 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1141
Credits
Vulnerability reported by GoLd_M.
ChangeLog
2008-04-08 : Initial release
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