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CWE-72

Improper Handling of Apple HFS+ Alternate Data Stream Path

Variant
Incomplete

Description

The product does not properly handle special paths that may identify the data or resource fork of a file on the HFS+ file system.

If the product chooses actions to take based on the file name, then if an attacker provides the data or resource fork, the product may take unexpected actions. Further, if the product intends to restrict access to a file, then an attacker might still be able to bypass intended access restrictions by requesting the data or resource fork for that file.

Common Consequences

Scope

Confidentiality
Integrity

Impact

Read Files or Directories, Modify Files or Directories

CVE-2004-1084

Server allows remote attackers to read files and resource fork content via HTTP requests to certain special file names related to multiple data streams in HFS+.

Applicable Platforms

Not Language-Specific

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