From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 04:20:38 CDT

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TITLE:
silentThought Simple Web Server Directory Traversal Vulnerability

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9020/

CRITICAL:

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
silentThought Simple Web Server 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
silentThought Simple Web Server fails to check input properly in HTTP
GET requests. This allows malicious people to perform directory
traversals by including "../" in a request to the web server.

Example:
http://[victim]/../../winnt/repair/sam._

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0.

SOLUTION:
Filter "../" and other potentially malicious requests in a proxy or
firewall with URL filtering capabilities.

Install silentThought Simple Web Server's web root at a separate
partition.

REPORTED BY / CREDITS:
Ziv Kamir

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