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MyDMS SQL Injection and Directory Traversal

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SQL injection against the remote MyDMS installation

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is running MyDMS, an open source document management
system based on MySQL and PHP.

The remote version of this software is vulnerable to a SQL injection
bug which may permit any guest user to execute arbitrary SQL commands
against the remote database. There is also a directory traversal issue
which may permit logged users to read arbitrary files on the remote
host with the rights of the HTTP daemon.

Solution : Upgrade to MyDMS 1.4.3
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 10996

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security

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