[28041] in bugtraq
pWins Perl Web Server Directory Transversal Vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Wagenknecht)
Thu Nov 28 09:27:25 2002
From: "Matthew Wagenknecht" <mattwagenknecht@hotmail.com>
To: news@securiteam.com, vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:49:19 -0700
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From www.sourceforge.net/projects/pwins: "pWins is a webserver-software
based on perl and ruby (not yet) code. My aim is to make it fast, small and
secure, supporting cgi (perl, ruby) and php scripts. It's easy to install
and configurate!"
versions: 0.2.5 and earlier, tested on Windows only..
description:
pWins allows directory transversal via unicode characters (%255, you know,
nimda stuff).. If it's installed on the c drive, you can get to any file
(ahem.. sam._) easily.. for example,
http://SomeWebServer/../../windows/repair/sam._
no exploit provided because too trivial..
fix:
author has posted a patch in the Bugs section on sourceforge.net, but I've
found that it breaks script processing because he forgot to escape the
special characters (%)in his regular expressions.. line 247 of cgipl.pm (i
think) search for url_check
or wait for version 0.2.8 due to be out soon..
Matt Wagenknecht
Security Administrator
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