bugtraq - Re: Apache Http Server Reveals Script Source Code to Remote Users And Any Users Can Access The Forbidden Directory ("/WEB-INF/")

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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:25:55 +0100 (MET)
From: "Oliver Schneider" <Borbarad@...pro.net>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Apache Http Server Reveals Script Source Code to Remote Users And    Any Users Can Access The Forbidden Directory ("/WEB-INF/")


> Right. On Unix "WEB-INF" and "WEB-INF.." are two different, legal file
> names. On Windows, trailing dots seem to be ignored, so "WEB-INF" and
> "WEB-INF.." are just two names for the same file. This also works if the
> filename already has an extension, so for example "foo.html" and
> "foo.html....." are the same file, too. I wonder whether that can be
> exploited, too: Get the contents of a CGI script by requesting
> "foo.cgi."?
I checked it on our Windows 2000 Server running Apache 2.0.48, it didn't
work for the .pl-scripts.
I.e. "download.pl." instead of "download.pl" gave the output of the actual
script.

Oliver