CVE-2014-3806

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Published 2014-05-21 · 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

6.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in cgi-bin/help/doIt.cgi in VMTurbo Operations Manager before 4.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the xml_path 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-33334 webapps cgi text · 1 KB

Jamal Pecou · 2014-05-12

VM Turbo Operations Manager 4.5x - Directory Traversal

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

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

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
vmturbo	operations_manager	`{"endIncluding":"4.5"}`
vmturbo	operations_manager	`4.0`

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.