[UNIX] My Postcards' Magiccard.cgi Directory Traversal Vulnerability

From: support@securiteam.com
Date: 06/19/02 

From: support@securiteam.com
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:22:35 +0200 (CEST)

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  My Postcards' Magiccard.cgi Directory Traversal Vulnerability
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SUMMARY

 <http://mypostcards.com/platinum/> My Postcards is a ready-to-use Web
Application. It includes executable precompiled C++ programs, shell
scripts, HTML and text templates, manuals and admin tools (e-mail address
extraction, elements frequency stats, usage stats, old cards cleanup etc).
A security vulnerability in the product allows remote attackers to read
any world readable file on the remote server.

DETAILS

Vulnerable systems:
 * My Postcards version 5.00

Immune systems:
 * My Postcards version 5.07
 * My Postcards version 5.16
 * My Postcards version 5.17
 * My Postcards version 5.20a
 * My Postcards version 6.06

Example:
http://www.xxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/magiccard.cgi?pa=3Dpreview&next=3Dcustom&
page=3D../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:simas@kalnieciai.lt> Cult.

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