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Apache Http Server Reveals Script Source Code to Remote Users And Any Users Can Access The Forbidden Directory ("/WEB-INF/") Feb 05 2004 07:12PM
Wang Yun (wangyun188 hotmail com) (3 replies)
Re: Apache Http Server Reveals Script Source Code to Remote Users And Any Users Can Access The Forbidden Directory ("/WEB-INF/") Feb 11 2004 12:49PM
Peter J. Holzer (hjp wsr ac at) (3 replies)
Re: Apache Http Server Reveals Script Source Code to Remote Users And Any Users Can Access The Forbidden Directory ("/WEB-INF/") Feb 12 2004 06:25PM
Oliver Schneider (Borbarad gmxpro net) (1 replies)
> Right. On Unix "WEB-INF" and "WEB-INF.." are two different, legal file
> names. On Windows, trailing dots seem to be ignored, so "WEB-INF" and
> "WEB-INF.." are just two names for the same file. This also works if the
> filename already has an extension, so for example "foo.html" and
> "foo.html....." are the same file, too. I wonder whether that can be
> exploited, too: Get the contents of a CGI script by requesting
> "foo.cgi."?
I checked it on our Windows 2000 Server running Apache 2.0.48, it didn't
work for the .pl-scripts.
I.e. "download.pl." instead of "download.pl" gave the output of the actual
script.

Oliver

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