CVE-2012-10024 Information

Description

XBMC version 11 including builds up to the 2012-11-04 nightly release contains a path traversal vulnerability in its embedded HTTP server. When accessed via HTTP Basic Authentication the server fails to properly sanitize URI input allowing authenticated users to request files outside the intended document root. An attacker can exploit this flaw to read arbitrary files from the host filesystem including sensitive configuration or credential files.

Reference

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/bdff099c024521941cb0956fe01d99ab52a65335 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/gather/xbmc_traversal.rb https://www.ioactive.com/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Security_Advisory_XBMC.pdf https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/xbmc-web-server-path-traversal

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