OA TongDa Path Traversal

OA TongDa Path Traversal vulnerability has occurred because of the inappropriate handling of the request parameters in the application. This may result in the exploitation of directory traversal vulnerability in the Tongda office anywhere. An attacker can take the privilege of this vulnerability occurrence by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the target. If an attacker is successful in exploiting this vulnerability, which causes the disclosure of critical data or initiates remote code execution.

Mitigation / Precaution

• In order to patch this vulnerability, please install the official patch OA TongDa made available for supported, vulnerable instances. Set appropriate permissions to directories and files.
• Handle the request parameters properly.

Written by

Rejah Rehim

Co-founder, Director

Rejah brings more than 12 years of industry experience in Information Technology. He is a fervent security enthusiast and serves as a Project Leader at OWASP Foundation, and Commander (Hon.) at Kerala Police. He has authored two books titled “Effective Python Penetration Testing” and “Python Penetration Testing Cookbook” and is the creator of 9 Mozilla add-ons.