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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Arbitrary local file read via file upload

Description

Acunetix uploaded a ZIP file containing a symlink to /etc/passwd. It looks like that web application processed this file and returned the contents of /etc/passwd in response.

Remediation

The web application should filter symlinks included inside ZIP files.

References

Reading local files from Facebook's server

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-200 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Tags

Unauthenticated File Upload

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