Caucho Resin Viewfile Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	18007
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 16 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	May 17 2006 07:59PM
Credit:	Joseph Pierini is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Caucho Technology Resin 3.0.18 Caucho Technology Resin 3.0.17
Not Vulnerable:	Caucho Technology Resin 3.0.19

Caucho Resin Viewfile Information Disclosure Vulnerability


Resin is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve the contents of arbitrary files from the vulnerable system in the context of the affected application. Information obtained may aid attackers in further attacks.

Caucho Resin Viewfile Information Disclosure Vulnerability


This vulnerability may be exploited with a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URIs are available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/Resin-0516-info.txt

Caucho Resin Viewfile Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:

The vendor has released a patch to address this issue; please see the reference section for further details.


Caucho Resin 3.0.17

• Caucho Technology resin-pro-3.0.19.tar.gz
  http://www.caucho.com/download/resin-pro-3.0.19.tar.gz

Caucho Resin 3.0.18

• Caucho Technology resin-pro-3.0.19.tar.gz
  http://www.caucho.com/download/resin-pro-3.0.19.tar.gz

Caucho Resin Viewfile Information Disclosure Vulnerability

References:

• Caucho Technology Homepage (Caucho Technology)
  
• Resin Version Updates Announcement (Caucho Technology)
  
• ScanAlert Security Advisory (Joseph Pierini)