An issue was discovered in Kurmi Provisioning Suite before 7.9.0.35 and 7.10.x through 7.10.0.18. A Directory Traversal and Local File Inclusion vulnerability in the logsSys.do page allows remote attackers (authenticated as administrators) to trigger the display of unintended files. Any file accessible to the Kurmi user account could be displayed, e.g., configuration files with information such as the database password.
The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.