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ZH2003-18SA (security advisory): News Wizard Path Disclosure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (G00db0y)
Mon Aug 11 13:22:21 2003
Date: 10 Aug 2003 16:05:09 -0000
Message-ID: <20030810160509.16446.qmail@www.securityfocus.com>
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From: G00db0y <G00db0y@zone-h.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
ZH2003-18SA (security advisory): News Wizard Path Disclosure
Published: 10 august 2003
Released: 10 august 2003
Name: News Wizard
Affected Systems: 2.0
Issue: Remote attackers can know the path of the site
Author: G00db0y@zone-h.org
Vendor: http://www.imediasoftware.com/products/newswizard/
Description
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Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in News Wizard v2.0 (and older
versions?) With News Wizard 2can you create, update and delete your news
articles right from your web browser."
Details
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It's possible to make a malformed http request in News Wizard and in doing
so
trigger an error. The resulting error message will disclose potentially
sensitive
installation path information to the remote attacker.
Example:
http://www.site.com/path/nw/article.php?id='
Solution:
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The vendor has been contacted and a patch is not yet produced.
Suggestions:
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Filter all files.
G00db0y - www.zone-h.org admin
Original advisory here: http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2862/
