A vulnerability has been identified in Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Manager, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions and disclose sensitive information. This issue is caused by an unspecified input validation error when processing user-supplied requests, which could be exploited by an authorized network user to read privileged system files via directory traversal attacks and potentially gain unauthorized access to a vulnerable system.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Nicolas Pouvesle (Tenable Security).
ChangeLog
2008-05-28 : Initial release
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