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AtomicBoard file reading

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Searches for the existence of remotehtmlview.php

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is hosting AtomicBoard, a set of PHP scripts.

This set of scripts may permit a possible hacker to read arbitrary
files on this host by supplying a filename to the 'location'
argument of the file index.php.

Solution : Upgrade WebCalendar 0.9.42
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 8236

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