Title: W3C httpd (Formerly 'CERN httpd') Path Revealing Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
When requesting a cgi-bin document from W3C webserver (also known as CERN) which doesn't exist, the error message will reveal the absolute path of the web documents on the target host's filesystem. The following example was taken from a post to bugtraq by Niklas Schiffler <nick@nightlabs.de> regarding this issue:
http://www.victim.com/cgi-bin/ls
results in:
Bad script request -- neither '/usr/local/etc/ls' nor '/usr/local/etc/ls.pp' is executable
http://www.victim.com/cgi-bin/cat
results in:
Bad script request -- neither '/usr/local/etc/cat' nor '/usr/local/etc/cat.pp' is executable
Affected Products:
- W3C httpd 3.0.0
References:
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