Brocade Network Advisor DashboardFileReceiveServlet filename Directory Traversal (CVE-2016-8205)

A directory traversal vulnerabilities exists in Brocade Network Advisor. The vulnerability is due to lack of authentication and insufficient input validation in the DashboardFileReceiveServlet servlet of dashboard-fileupload. war when processing HTTP multipart form requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious HTTP request to the target system. Successful exploitation could result in arbitrary code execution with privileges of the SYSTEM.

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