VM Turbo Operations Manager 4.5.x Directory Traversal

`Product: VM Turbo Operations Manager  
Vendor: VM Turbo  
Vulnerable Version(s): 4.5.x earlier  
Tested Version: 4.0  
Advisory Publication: April 11, 2014   
Vendor Notification: April 11, 2014   
Public Disclosure: May 8, 2014   
Vulnerability Type: Directory Traversal  
  
Discovered and Provided: (Jamal Pecou) Security Focus ( https://www.securityfocus.com/ )  
  
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Advisory Details:  
  
A vulnerability affecting “/cgi-bin/help/doIt.cgi" in VM Turbo Operations Manager allows directory traversal when the URL encoded POST input “xml_path” was set to “../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd” we could see the contents of this file.   
  
  
The following exploitation example displays the contents of /etc/passwd  
  
http://[host]/cgi-bin/help/doIt.cgi?FUNC=load_xml_file&xml_path=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd  
  
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Solution:  
  
The vendor has released a fix for this vulnerability in version 4.6.  
  
References:  
  
[1] https://support.vmturbo.com/hc/en-us/articles/203170127-VMTurbo-Operations-Manager-v4-6-Announcement  
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