CVE-2004-0204

published 2004-08-06

CVE-2004-0204: Directory traversal vulnerability in the web viewers for Business Objects Crystal Reports 9 and 10, and Crystal Enterprise 9 or 10, as used in Visual Studio…

Priority P3 54 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C P I P A P

EXPLOIT

Directory traversal vulnerability in the web viewers for Business Objects Crystal Reports 9 and 10, and Crystal Enterprise 9 or 10, as used in Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Business Solutions CRM 1.2, and other products, allows remote attackers to read and delete arbitrary files via ".." sequences in the dynamicimag argument to crystalimagehandler.aspx.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
bea	weblogic_server	—	—
businessobjects	crystal_enterprise	—	—
businessobjects	crystal_enterprise	—	—
businessobjects	crystal_enterprise_java_sdk	—	—
businessobjects	crystal_enterprise_ras	—	—
businessobjects	crystal_reports	—	—
businessobjects	crystal_reports	—	—
microsoft	business_solutions_crm	—	—
microsoft	outlook	—	—
microsoft	visual_studio_net	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path /crystalreportviewers/crystalimagehandler.aspx↗

• → Monitor HTTP requests targeting 'crystalimagehandler.aspx' with a 'dynamicimage' parameter containing directory traversal sequences ('..\' or '../') ↗

• · The vulnerability exists in the 'dynamicimage' parameter (note: NVD spells it 'dynamicimag' — likely a typo); detection rules should match the actual parameter name 'dynamicimage' as seen in the PoC URL ↗
• · Affected deployments span multiple products that redistribute Crystal Reports (Visual Studio .NET 2003, Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager, Microsoft Business Solutions CRM 1.2); detection should be applied broadly across any IIS host serving crystalimagehandler.aspx ↗

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