SolarWinds Firewall Security Manager FSMWebService Information Disclosure Vulnerability

April 8th, 2014
ZDI-14-068 ZDI-CAN-1898

CVE ID

CVSS Score

7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Affected Vendors

SolarWinds

Affected Products

Firewall Security Manager

Vulnerability Details


This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of SolarWinds Firewall Security Manager. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the FSMWebService service. The issue lies within the DownloadFileServlet servlet which fails to prevent directory traversal within all parameters. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to retrieve arbitrary files as the SYSTEM user.

Additional Details

SolarWinds has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/ReleaseNotes/releaseNotes.htm

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2013-10-27 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2014-04-08 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod

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