EServ 2.9x - Password-Protected File Access



EKU-ID: 26726 CVE: CVE-2002-0112;OSVDB-12082 OSVDB-ID:
Author: Tamer Sahin Published: 2002-01-10 Verified: Verified
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EServ is a combination Mail, News, Web, FTP and Proxy Server for Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000 systems.

It is possible to construct a web request which is capable of accessing the contents of password protected files/folders on the webserver, such as the admin folder, which contains the administrative interface.

It should be noted that this vulnerability may only be exploited to access password-protected files in sub-folders of wwwroot.

The following example will give the attacker access to the administrative interface:

http://host/./admin/