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"New Certificate" page will display saystem files when uploading symbolic link

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New Pleskian
Hi there,

because of a mistake on my side, I discovered something that I think is weird; I don't know however if it should be considered as a bug...

Here comes the "header":
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PRODUCT, VERSION, MICROUPDATE, OPERATING SYSTEM, ARCHITECTURE
Plesk Panel 11.5.30 Update #51, Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS, Kernel 2.6.32, x64

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
SSL-Certificate Upload-Page will display some "system" files when uploading a symbolic link

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1) Create a symbolic link "file" to an interesting system file, e.g. "/etc/passwd"
2) Got to Domains->Secure your Site->Add SSL-Certificate
3) Upload the file as Certificate and Private key
4) Ignore the complaint about wrong formatted PEM-File
5) Read the contents of "/etc/passwd" in the Textbox below

ACTUAL RESULT
System file is displayed on the web

EXPECTED RESULT
Error message saying "no symbolic links allowed"
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Fortunately Plesk doesn't run as root, so most really important files should be safe.

As I said, I don't know if this is really problematic, however I still think is should be changed.

Thank you very much in advance,

Alex
 
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