BadBlue Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:3222

Info

BadBlue Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3222
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2001-1140
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 22 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 07:56AM
Credit: This vulnerability was submitted to BugTraq on August 22nd, 2001 by "acz \[iSecureLabs\]" <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: BadBlue BadBlue Personal Edition 1.0 2 beta
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Not Vulnerable: BadBlue BadBlue Personal Edition 1.5
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Discussion

BadBlue Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability

BadBlue is a small web-based file sharing utility for Microsoft Windows systems.

BadBlue v1.02 does not filter some some malicious strings from web requests. A null character(%00) placed at the end of a web request for a known file(within the webroot directory tree) will cause the file to be displayed by BadBlue. If the file is a script then it's contents will be output instead of it being interpreted.

Exploit / POC

BadBlue Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited with a web browser.

Solution / Fix

BadBlue Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
Upgrade to BadBlue version 1.5 or higher.

References

BadBlue Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability

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