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AlienForm2 alienform.cgi Traversal Arbitrary File Manipulation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 11027

Synopsis

The remote host contains a Perl application that is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability.

Description

The AlienForm CGI script allows an attacker to view any file on the target computer, append arbitrary data to an existing file, and write arbitrary data to a new file.

The AlienForm CGI script is installed as either af.cgi or alienform.cgi.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2002/Jun/73

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 11027

File Name: alienform.nasl

Version: 1.30

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 6/11/2002

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-0934

BID: 4983