Re: Apache Artificially Long Slash Path Directory Listing Vulnerabili ty -- FILE READ ACCESS

From: Stephen Cope (mail-e-e4f9ad24cc1631d595at_private)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 16:49:30 PDT

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    Brian Dinello wrote:
    : Old news:  As the vulnerability's description describes, any user
    : with a web browser can obtain directory listing of the Apache http
    : root directory, even if the directory contains an index.html file and
    : is password protected.  
    
    $ lynx -head -dump http://server:8080/
    HTTP/1.0 200 OK
    Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:45:50 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6
    
    Using Matt Watchinski's 'Apache Overflow' script on the same server above
    I get the result:
    
    Found the magic number: 8171
    
    Checking by hand, yes indeed, the directory listing is displayed.
    
    Although I toyed around with it by hand, I wasn't able to get into any
    password protected directories like this:
    
    : Download an Arbitrary file:
    : http://15.16.17.18////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    : ////thisfile.txt
    
    -- 
    Stephen Cope - http://sdc.org.nz/
    



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