[NT] DirectContact Directory Traversal

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DirectContact Directory Traversal
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SUMMARY

<http://reyero.info/dc/> DirectContact "turns your computer in real
"friendly" HTTP server." The DirectContact program is unable to manage
malicious patterns like ..\ or ../, allowing an attacker can go out the
document root assigned to the webserver and see/download all the files
available on the remote system.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
* DirectContact version 0.3b

Proof of concept:
To test the vulnerability:

Via browser:
http://[host]:[port]/..\..\..\..\windows/system.ini

Via raw request:
GET /../../../../../../windows/system.ini HTTP/1.1


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:fdonato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Donato Ferrante.
The original article can be found at:
<http://www3.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/DirectContact0.3b-adv.txt>
http://www3.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/DirectContact0.3b-adv.txt



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