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Vulnerability in Free Java Web Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joetesta@HUSHMAIL.COM)
Sun Feb 4 23:56:45 2001
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Vulnerability in Free Java Web Server
Overview
Free Java Web Server v1.0 is a Java web server available from
http://www.download.com. A vulnerability exists which allows a remote
user to break out of the web root using relative paths (ie: '..', '...').
Details
http://localhost/../[file outside web root]
http://localhost/.../[file outside web root]
Solution
No quick fix is possible.
Vendor Status
The author, Dattaraj J. Rao, was contacted via
<jagrao@goa1.dot.net.in> on Sunday, January 28, 2001. No reply was
received.
- Joe Testa ( joetesta@hushmail.com )
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