Mozilla Bonsai Path Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:5517

Info

Mozilla Bonsai Path Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5517
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2003-0153
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 20 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 03:56PM
Credit: Discovery credited to Stan Bubrouski <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Mozilla Bonsai 1.3
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
+ Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mips
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mips
+ Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
+ Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
+ Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
+ Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
+ Debian Linux 3.0 arm
+ Debian Linux 3.0 arm
+ Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
+ Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
+ Debian Linux 3.0
+ Debian Linux 3.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Mozilla Bonsai Path Disclosure Vulnerability

A path disclosure vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Bonsai.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by making a malformed request to Bonsai. This causes Bonsai to return an error page to the requesting user. This error page will contain the absolute path information about the requested file.

Exploit / POC

Mozilla Bonsai Path Disclosure Vulnerability

The following proof of concepts have been provided by Stan Bubrouski &lt;[email protected]&gt;:

/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi
/bonsai/multidiff.cgi

Solution / Fix

Mozilla Bonsai Path Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
Fixes available:


Mozilla Bonsai 1.3

References

Mozilla Bonsai Path Disclosure Vulnerability

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