Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in WinHKI 1.6 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a (1) RAR, (2) TAR, (3) ZIP, or (4) TAR.GZ archive with a file whose file name contains ".." sequences.
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
- WinHKI 1.4/1.5/1.6 - Directory Traversal EDB-27450 · webapps · Feb 24, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- ADV-2006-1010 vdb-entry
- 19296 third-party-advisory
- http://hamid.ir/security/winhki.txt
- 20060322 WinHKI 1.6x Archive Extraction Directory traversal mailing-list
- winhki-extract-directory-traversal(25335) vdb-entry
- 17153 vdb-entry