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U.S. Dept Of Defense · Report #230870

Arbitary file download vulnerability on a DoD website

Validstatus
mediumseverity
14upvotes
5 Jul 2017disclosed

Summary

A DoD website was misconfigured in a manner that could have allowed an attacker to collect sensitive information about the web application or system. @psychomantis was able to demonstrate this vulnerability by crafting a specially formatted URL. Thank you for notifying us of this vulnerability!

This website used DotNetNuke EventsCalendar which is prone to an arbitrary-file-download vulnerability. An example of what this looks like is this, website.com/desktopmodules/eventscalendar/downloaddoc.aspx We can exploit this by appending ?f=/downloaddoc.aspx so it'd look like this, website.com/desktopmodules/eventscalendar/downloaddoc.aspx?f=/downloaddoc.aspx

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