Secunia Security Advisory - Gynvael Coldwind has reported a vulnerability in Total Commander, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Total Commander FTP Download Directory Traversal Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26734
VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/26734/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Total Commander 7.x
https://secunia.com/product/14429/
Total Commander 6.x
https://secunia.com/product/3312/
DESCRIPTION:
Gynvael Coldwind has reported a vulnerability in Total Commander,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when
handling the filename of downloaded files through FTP. This can be
exploited to e.g. create files in arbitrary locations via directory
traversal attacks.
Successful exploitation requires that the user is e.g. tricked into
downloading a file with a specially-crafted filename from a malicious
FTP server.
The vulnerability affects versions prior to 7.02 and 6.57.
SOLUTION:
Update to 7.02 or 6.57.
7.02:
https://www.ghisler.com/download.htm
6.57 (16-bit):
https://www.ghisler.com/wcmd16.htm
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Gynvael Coldwind
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Total Commander:
https://www.ghisler.com/whatsnew.htm
Hispasec Sistemas:
https://blog.hispasec.com/lab/advisories/adv_TotalCommander_7_01_Remote_Traversal.txt
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