full-disclosure - Re: Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure

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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:22:37 +1000
From: Noel Butler <noel.butler@...ics.net>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Apache suEXEC privilege elevation /
 information disclosure

On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 06:21 -0500, R. Whitney wrote:

> I would concern myself more with the web hosting providers which
> utilize suExec. By escalating privileges even to just the level of the
> HTTPD would allow one to read/write to content outside of their web
> hosting account.
> I have personally been in situations where I have had to advise sys
> admins that suExec was properly setup & my web hosting account was
> capable of (in worst case scenario) shutting down the HTTPD itself,
> and in other situations capable of reading things like wordpress
> config files from other hosting accounts.
> 


Then httpd was clearly not configured by someone who knew what they were
doing - and majorly broke it somehow


> Good work as always Kingcope. :)
>  


oh dear .. I knew there was a reason why I rarely read this list unless
something is off-list brought to my attention.





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