ZH2003-18SA (security advisory): News Wizard Path Disclosure

From: G00db0y (G00db0y@zone-h.org)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 09:05:09 PDT

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    ZH2003-18SA (security advisory): News Wizard Path Disclosure
    
    
    Published: 10 august 2003
    
    Released: 10 august 2003
    
    Name: News Wizard
    
    Affected Systems: 2.0
    
    Issue: Remote attackers can know the path of the site
    
    Author: G00db0y@zone-h.org
    
    Vendor: http://www.imediasoftware.com/products/newswizard/
    
    Description
    
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    Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in News Wizard v2.0 (and older
    versions?) With News Wizard 2can you create, update and delete your news 
    articles right from your web browser."
    
    
    
    Details
    
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    It's possible to make a malformed http request in News Wizard and in doing 
    so 
    trigger an error. The resulting error message will disclose potentially 
    sensitive 
    installation path information to the remote attacker.
    
    Example:
    
    http://www.site.com/path/nw/article.php?id='
    
    
    Solution:
    
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    The vendor has been contacted and a patch is not yet produced.
    
    
    Suggestions:
    
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    Filter all files. 
    
    
    G00db0y - www.zone-h.org admin
    
    Original advisory here: http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2862/
    



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