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Re: directory traversal vulnerability

Subject: Re: directory traversal vulnerability
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:00:00 -0500
davemitch@mailinator.com writes:

hi List,

how does one exploit directory traversal vulnearbility ?

does this error message indicate such a vulnerability ?
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E:\INETPUB\VHOSTS\****.***.***\HTTPDOCS\WEBROOT\PA 
GES\../includes/toplinks-archive-courses-spas.asp, line 1 

Hi Dave, 

You really haven't given enough information there to say for sure, but
I'm leaning towards "no." 


If--by manipulating a filename parameter of a GET or POST request--you
can display a file outside of the web root, or in a protected
directory of the web root, then I'd say you have found a directory
traversal vulnerability.  But just getting some text in an error
message with a ../ in it doesn't quite qualify.





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