CVE-2008-0405 Information

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in HTTP File Server (HFS) before 2.2c when account names are used as log filenames allow remote attackers to create arbitrary (1) files and (2) directories via a .. (dot dot) in an account name when requesting the / URI; and (3) append arbitrary data to a file via a .. (dot dot) in an account name when requesting a URI composed of a /?0a\ sequence followed by the data.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/28631 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3581 http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/?f=wn http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486873/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27423 http://www.syhunt.com/advisories/hfs-1-log.txt http://www.syhunt.com/advisories/hfshack.txt https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39873