ZH2003-23SA (security advisory): HostAdmin Path Disclosure

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Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 10:12:41 PDT

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    ZH2003-23SA (security advisory): HostAdmin Path Disclosure
    
    
    Published: 12 august 2003
    
    Released: 12 august 2003
    
    Name: HostAdmin
    
    Affected Systems: current version
    
    Issue: Remote attackers can know the path of the site
    
    Author: G00db0y@zone-h.org
    
    Vendor: http://dreamcost.com/?page=hostadmin
    
    Description
    
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    Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in HostAdmin (and older
    versions?). "HostAdmin is based on PHP, MySQL, and uses HTML templates 
    and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) which can be modified for site-wide 
    changes by any novice".
    
    
    
    Details
    
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    It's possible to make a malformed http request in HostAdmin 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/pathofhostadmin/?page='
    
    
    Solution:
    
    *********
    
    The vendor has been contacted and a patch is not yet produced.
    
    
    Suggestions:
    
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    Filter the ' character. 
    
    
    G00db0y - www.zone-h.org admin
    
    Original advisory here: http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2878/
    



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