Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:38:56 -0500 From: zorgon <zorgon@LINUXSTART.COM> Subject: CGIForum 1.0 Vulnerability To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Hi, Date: 2000/11/20 Affected Application: CGIForum 1.0 http://www.marcbrinkmann.de/inandonline/netz/CGIForum-1.0.tar.gz Markus Triska <triska@gmx.at> CGIForum is a free forum. We can set 'thesection' parameter to view files on the vulnerable system with privileges of the user "nobody". This is caused from OutputHTMLFile function in cgiforum.pl script where $section (= $thesection ) isn't checked (never besides in this script). e.g.: http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/cgiforum.pl?thesection=../../../../../../etc/passwd%00 The author is informed. ================================== zorgon <zorgon@linuxstart.com> http://www.nightbird.free.fr ---------------------- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com