My Postcards 6.0 - 'MagicCard.cgi' Arbitrary File Disclosure

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2002-1966  
Publish Date: 15 Jun 2002
Author: cult
                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5029/info

My Postcards is a commercial available eletronic postcard system. It is available for Unix and Linux Operating Systems.

The magiccard.cgi script does not properly handle some types of input. As a result, it may be possible for a remote user to specify the location of a specific file on the system hosting the My Postcards software. Upon specifying the location of a file that is readable by the web server process, the user could disclose the contents of the specified file. 

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/magiccard.cgi?pa=preview&next=custom&page=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd