An issue has been identified in a component of BitDefender update server (CVE-2008-0396). Successful exploit of the vulnerability may allow read access to files outside of the application's root directory with named privileges.
This issue only affects customers hosting their own internal BitDefender Update server. Customers updating directly from BitDefender are not affected. Additionally, this issue does not affect any Consumer product such as BitDefender Total Security, BitDefender Internet Security or BitDefender Antivirus.
The risk level of this vulnerability is low and at this moment no known malicious exploit has been observed in the wild.
Solution:
BitDefender acknowledged the vulnerability on January 17, 2008 and released a patch on January 24, 2008.
In order to fix this issue, please use the link below to download the httpsvrpch.exe patch and install it on your server.