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[SA24127] Plain Old Webserver Directory Traversal Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 06:32:05 CST


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TITLE:
Plain Old Webserver Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24127

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24127/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Plain Old Webserver (POW) 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/13462/

DESCRIPTION:
Stefano di Paola has reported a vulnerability in Plain Old Webserver
(POW), which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose
sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when
processing HTTP requests and can be exploited to retrieve arbitrary
files outside of the web root via directory traversal attacks.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.0.9.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Stefano di Paola

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-February/052303.html

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