oss-security - Re: Fwd: [Full-disclosure] Thttpd 2.25b Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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Message-ID: <20130522132916.GB3827@blema.cz>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:29:16 +0200
From: Vitezslav Cizek <civ@...ma.cz>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Full-disclosure] Thttpd 2.25b Directory
 Traversal Vulnerability

* Dne Středa 22. květen 2013, 13:44:09 [CEST] Oden Eriksson napsal:
> onsdagen den 22 maj 2013 13.06.18 skrev  Matthias Weckbecker:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > has anybody possibly already confirmed this? It might also be worth
> > to assign a CVE to this if it turns out to be a reproducible issue.
> 
> Confirmed here. Needed to use "lynx -dump ...".
> 
Are you sure?
I fail to reproducet the problem.

How do you use lynx?
Do you prepend "http://" to the url?
Otherwise lynx won't connect over network
and will default to local filesystem.

For example:
$ lynx -dump "google.com:80/../../../../etc/passwd"
wil get you you're local /etc/passwd

  Vita

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