National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1526

Overview

JBMC Software DirectAdmin before 1.334 allows local users to create or overwrite any file via a symlink attack on an arbitrary file in a certain temporary directory, related to a request for this temporary file in the PATH_INFO to the CMD_DB script during a backup action.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=968

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=968

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34861

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34861

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 54014

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/54014

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20090422 DirectAdmin < 1.33.4 Local file overwrite & Local root escalation

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-04/0228.html