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Home Free search.cgi Traversal Arbitrary File Access

medium Nessus Plugin ID 10101

Synopsis

A CGI script on the remote web server is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack.

Description

The remote web server contains a CGI script that fails to sanitize user input to the 'letter' parameter of the 'search.cgi' script of directory traversal sequences. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this issue to read arbitrary files from the affected host, subject to the privileges under which the web server runs.

Solution

Remove this CGI from the server.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2000/Jan/29

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 10101

File Name: homefree.nasl

Version: 1.40

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 1/9/2000

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Exploited by Nessus: true

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2000

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2000-0054

BID: 921