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Re: Security flaw in Count.cgi (wwwcount) (fwd)

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:

> Andreas Jellinghaus brought this to my attention earlier this weekend and
> I've looked into it.  I believe we are not vulnerable as the location of
> the digits directory is hard-coded into wwwcount.cgi as
> /usr/lib/wwwcount/digits and the program checks to see it is only this
> directory being accessed.  I was not able to replicate the exploit
> mentioned but I am not an expert in these matters so I invite others to
> try.  Tomorrow I will confer with the upstream author to see what he has
> to say about it.

The fact that the location is hardcoded is not enough. The program must
also reject paths with stuff like "../" in them. Otherwise you just pass
it something like "../../../../path/to/image.gif" and you can get access
to any image on the hard disk.

  Christian



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