CVE-2006-5028

published 2006-09-27

CVE-2006-5028: Directory traversal vulnerability in filemanager/filemanager.php in SWsoft Plesk 7.5 Reload and Plesk 7.6 for Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to list…

Priority P3 40 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

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

EXPLOIT

Directory traversal vulnerability in filemanager/filemanager.php in SWsoft Plesk 7.5 Reload and Plesk 7.6 for Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to list arbitrary directories via a ../ (dot dot slash) in the file parameter in a chdir action.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
swsoft	plesk	—	—
swsoft	plesk_reload	—	—

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

path /filemanager/filemanager.php↗

url https://www.example.com:8443/filemanager/filemanager.php?cmd=chdir&file=../↗

port 8443↗

command cmd=chdir&file=../↗

• → Detect directory traversal attempts targeting filemanager.php via the 'file' parameter containing '../' sequences with a 'chdir' action ↗
• → Monitor HTTP requests to /filemanager/filemanager.php on port 8443 with query parameters cmd=chdir and file values containing path traversal sequences ↗

• · Vulnerability is specific to Plesk for Microsoft Windows; Linux/other OS versions may not be affected ↗
• · Other versions beyond 7.5 Reload and 7.6 may also be affected and should be evaluated ↗

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