source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1776/info
Bytes Interactive Web Shopper is a XML based shopping cart application.
The "newpage" variable does not properly check for insecure relative paths such as the double dot "..".
The following URL request:
http://target/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?newpage=../../../path/filename.ext
will yield the file specified.
Successful exploitation could lead to a remote intruder gaining read access to any known file.
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