Re: IBM AS/400 HTTP Server '/' attack

[Joe Laffey <joe () laffeycomputer com>]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, 'ken'@FTU wrote:

>    IBM's HTTP Server on the AS/400 platform is vulnerable to an attack
> that will show the source code of the page -- such as an .html or .jsp
> page -- by attaching an '/' to the end of a URL.
>
> [snip]
>
> http://www.foo.com/getsource.jsp/
[snip]
> Since I reported this "non-security" bug so long ago I hope it is fixed
> through the regular set of changes. I cannot confirm this bug was fixed.
> As far as I know this vulnerability was not yet reported to the public.

I can confirm that a server reporting 'IBM-HTTP-Server/1.0' _IS_ vulrable
to this. I do not know if updates increment that number or not...

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