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FSP Suite Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
FSPD Detection

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The FSP Suite (daemon) has been found to improperly filter out
paths with trailing / or starting with /. This would permit a possible hacker
access to files that reside outside the bounding FSP root diretory.

Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 9377

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Noam Rathaus

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