On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 08:20:15PM -0500, noconflic wrote:
>
>
> Webcalendar 0.9.41 and below.
> http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/
>
> Since this appears to be public info now.
>
> Problem:
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=901234&forum_id=11588
>
> Exploit:
> http://www.some.host/webcalendar/[filename].php?user_inc=../../../../../
etc/passwd
>
>

The bug seems to be in includes/function.php

in the "temporary hack" to make webcalendar working with
register_globals set to "off".

A quick fix could be to add:

unset($HTTP_GET_VARS["user_inc"]);

at the beginning of "includes/function.php".

My 2 cents ;-)

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