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>> JBoss Application Server Directory Traversal and Code Execution Vulnerability
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Title : JBoss Application Server Directory Traversal and Code Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4724
CVE ID : CVE-2006-5750
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-28
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A vulnerability has been identified in JBoss Application Server, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable server. This issue is due to an input validation error in the "setBaseDir()" method within the "DeploymentFileRepository" class that does not validate user-supplied arguments before being passed to a "store()" or "remove()" method, which could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker who is able to access the console manager to read and write files via a directory traversal, or execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the application.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Oliver Karow (Symantec)
ChangeLog
2006-11-28 : Initial release
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