@(#)Mordred Labs advisory - Texis sensitive information leak

[sir.mordred () hushmail com]

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//@(#) Mordred Security Labs advisory

Release date: March 15, 2003
Name: Texis sensitive information leak
Versions affected: all versions
Risk: average
Author: Sir Mordred (mordred () s-mail com, http://mslabs.iwebland.com)

I. Description:

Thunderstone is an independent R&D company that has been providing
high-performance state-of-the-art solutions to intelligent information retrieval and management problems for over 21 
years.
Their product, Texis, provides every full-text, SQL, multimedia management,
and dynamic publishing operation needed for an enterprise search application.
For more info please visit http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/pages

II. Details:

The texis program executes files written in Texis Web Script (aka Vortex),
a powerful web-server-side HTML programming language. It can be invoked
from the command line, or as a CGI program from the web server to run scripts.
By requesting a specially crafted urls, a very sensitive information about the system will be displayed.

III. Exploit:

http://victim.com/texis.exe/?-version
http://victim.com/texis.exe/?-dump

IV. Vendor

Vendor contacted, no reply since.

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