Title: Website Professional Directory Revealing Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
In the most recent versions of Website Pro it is possible to get the complete absolute directory for web documents on a target server. The default errorcode 404 output displays the absolute path of the web document directory on the server running Website Pro.
The following example was taken from a post made to Bugtraq by Lark Lizerman <webmaster@doc2000.de> regarding this problem (which is linked to in the Credit section of this vulnerability entry):
Here is the part from the logfile of Windows Telnet Client:
website.oreilly.com:
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GET /HTTP1.0
HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:47:12 GMT
Server: WebSitePro/2.4.9
Accept-ranges: bytes
Content-type: text/html
Content-length: 216
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor=3D"White"><H2>404 Not Found</H2>
The requested URL was not found on this server:<P><CODE>/HTTP1.0<P>(c:\1Web\docs\website\HTTP1.0)</CODE><P>
</BODY></HTML>
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Affected Products:
- OReilly Software WebSite Professional 2.3.18
- OReilly Software WebSite Professional 2.4.9
References:
- OReilly & Associates: Website Professional Homepage
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