PROBLEM

UssrLabs found a Symantec Mail-Gear 1.0 Web interface Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Using the string '../' in a URL, an attacker can gain read access to any file outside of the intended web-published filesystem directory

There is not much to expand on this one....

Example:

http://ServerIp:8003/Display?what=../../../../../autoexec.bat to show autoexec.bat

Vendor Status:

Contacted

Vendor Url: http://www.symantec.com/urlabs/public/index.html

Program Url: http://www.symantec.com/urlabs/public/download/download.html

Credit: USSRLABS

SOLUTION:

Upgrade to Symantec Mail-Gear 1.1

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