ATutor Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2016-10400 - Vulnerability Database

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ATutor Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2016-10400

High

Reference: CVE-2016-10400

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10400

Title: ATutor Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability

Overview:

Directory Traversal exists in ATutor before 2.2.2 via the icon parameter to /mods/_core/courses/users/create_course.php. The attacker can read an arbitrary file by visiting get_course_icon.phpid after the traversal attack.