Two vulnerabilities have been identified in SmartGate, which could be exploited by attackers to disclose sensitive information or gain unauthorized access to arbitrary files on a vulnerable system.
The first flaw is due to an input validation error in the SSL Server that does not validate certain "GET" requests, which could be exploited by malicious people to access and read the contents of arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks [...]
Solution
Upgrade to SmartGate version 4.3C :
http://www.aepnetworks.com/support/support.htm
Credits
Vulnerability reported by prdelka
ChangeLog
2006-10-29 : Initial release
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