[UNIX] PHP Rocket Add-in for FrontPage Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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Date: 01/14/02 

From: support@securiteam.com
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:21:48 +0100 (CET)

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  PHP Rocket Add-in for FrontPage Directory Traversal Vulnerability
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SUMMARY

 <http://www.totalpconline.com/phprocketaddin/> PHP Rocket Add-in for
FrontPage allows you to do your PHP development from FrontPage and preview
the PHP'd pages right in FrontPage's Preview window. A security
vulnerability in the product causes the product to show world readable
files that reside outside the normal HTML root directory.

DETAILS

Example:
http://www.example.com/phprocketaddin/?page=../../../../etc/passwd
http://www.example.com/index.php?page=../../../../etc/passwd

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:zaleth@hushmail.com> Zaleth.

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