Description
Acme.Serve 1.7, as used in Cisco Secure ACS Unix and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by prepending several / (slash) characters to the URI.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Acme.Serve 1.7 - Arbitrary File Access EDB-20894 · remote · May 31, 2001 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20020702 Cisco Secure ACS Unix Acme.server Information Disclosure Vulnerability vendor-advisory
- 2809 vdb-entry
- 20010531 Acme.Server v1.7 of 13nov96 Directory Browsing mailing-list
- acme-serve-directory-traversal(6634) vdb-entry
- 5544 vdb-entry