Title :                     MultiHTML vulnerability.

Description :         Retrieve files from the server.

Vendor status :    Notified and a new (not much improved) script is

released.





Short description of the tool:

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MultiHTML allows you to put an SSI call where you want the HTML file to

be displayed.

The SSI executes the MultiHTML program which displays whatever HTML file

you have it set to

display. The main reason i'm posting this is because of the fact that

this script is offerd

by many lets-expand-our-cgi-bins-to-make-us-look-good isp's.





The problems

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The cgi script checks the extentions of the requested file to see if it

is ok. This easily can be

 tricked by using %00 ( Olaf Kirch )



http://localhost/cgi-bin/multihtml.pl?multi=/etc/passwd%00html



further their is no dcumentroot specified in the script so we do not

need to use the ../../ here

because their is access to every directory on the system in question

(lame). Even if their was a

documentroot and they would filter the dots then you would have to make

sure that the script does

not contain any higher directory's. Because the open(FILE, "$multi")

functions in the script makes

 it easy to bypass .htaccess files.





The solution:

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Be a man and learn how to use ssi without a script. Or beg someone to

write a new one ;)





Greets





zillion