Re: AWstats Path Disclosure Vulnerability

[Fournaux <fournaux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi !

If you use this url :
http://www.server.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=xxx

You will get the full path on the hard drive of the script "awstats.pl" 
with all sub folders.
To prevent an attack, this is the kind of information you should hide.

If you search "full path disclosure" on google or on bugtraq you will 
find many security issue.
It is not a critical vulnerability but we should be aware.

Best regards.

FOURNAUX Nicolas
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www.cambodiaoutsourcing.com
www.khmerdev.com

Martin Pitt a écrit :

> Hi!
>
> fournaux@xxxxxxxxxxxx [2005-08-26  1:58 -0000]:
>  
>
> > Once you have setup this tool, you can get statistics of a website
> > with this URL :
> >
> > http://www.server.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=xxx
> >
> > You replace xxx by the name you gave to the configuration file of
> > your website (You have one file per website)
> >
> > But if xxx is not an existing name, the path will be disclosed to
> > the user in the resulting error message.
> >    
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand this properly - You request
> http://some.url?config=/path/to/nonexistant and the error page
> displays exactly this path? How can this be a vulnerability? AFAICS
> this can only determine whether a file exists or not, but this is
> really picky...
>
> Thanks for any clarification,
>
> Martin
>