ZH2003-23SA (security advisory): HostAdmin Path Disclosure

[G00db0y <G00db0y () zone-h org>]

ZH2003-23SA (security advisory): HostAdmin Path Disclosure


Published: 12 august 2003

Released: 12 august 2003

Name: HostAdmin

Affected Systems: current version

Issue: Remote attackers can know the path of the site

Author: G00db0y () zone-h org

Vendor: http://dreamcost.com/?page=hostadmin

Description

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Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in HostAdmin (and older
versions?). "HostAdmin is based on PHP, MySQL, and uses HTML templates 
and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) which can be modified for site-wide 
changes by any novice".



Details

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It's possible to make a malformed http request in HostAdmin and in doing 
so 
trigger an error. The resulting error message will disclose potentially 
sensitive 
installation path information to the remote attacker.

Example:

http://www.site.com/pathofhostadmin/?page='


Solution:

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The vendor has been contacted and a patch is not yet produced.


Suggestions:

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Filter the ' character. 


G00db0y - www.zone-h.org admin

Original advisory here: http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2878/