faust Informatics FreeStyle chat 4.1 sr2 - Directory Traversal

Author: nemesystm
type: remote
platform: multiple
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date_added: 2001-05-25 
date_updated: 2012-08-28 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2001-0615;OSVDB-1841 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2776/info

Freestyle Chat server from Faust Informatics incorporates interactive chat functionality into websites.

Versions of Freestyle Chat are vulnerable to directory traversal attacks. This can allow a remote user to request files from outside the normal webserver directory scope.

Properly exploited, this could provide information useful in further attacks on the vulnerable host.

http://www.example.com/.../.../scandisk.log