Re: Doubledot bug in FrontPage FrontPage Personal Web Server.

Is there a fix or patch for this bug? I haven't been able to find any
direct information on what versions aren't affected by this bug. I know a
couple of people that run small websites using this thing (unfortunately).

-Alexander Kiwerski

At 10:10 PM 2/18/00 -0500, Jeff Dafoe wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, GALES,SIMON (Non-A-ColSprings,ex1) wrote:
>
> I was able to reporduce this on a PWS installation under Win98
>second edition.
>
>
>Jeff Dafoe
>System Administrator
>Evolution Communications, Inc.
>
>
> > Does this only occur on Win9x? Has anyone been able to reproduce this?
> > Jan, which OS/SP were you running?
> >
> > I vaguely remember some discussion (in BugTraq or NTBugTraq maybe?) about
> > using "..." and/or "...." from the command prompt, and this is probably
> tied
> > to that problem.
> >
> > G. Simon Gales
> > george_gales_at_non.hp.com <mailto:george_gales_at_non.hp.com>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jan van de Rijt [mailto:rijt_at_WISH.NET]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 6:16 PM
> > To: BUGTRAQ_at_SECURITYFOCUS.COM
> > Subject: Doubledot bug in FrontPage FrontPage Personal Web Server.
> >
> >
> > Description: Doubledot bug in FrontPage FrontPage Personal Web Server.
> > Compromise: Accessing drive trough browser.
> > Vulnerable Systems: Frontpage-PWS32/3.0.2.926 other versions not tested.
> > Details:
> > When FrontPage-PWS runs a site on your c:\ drive your drive could be
> > accessed by any user accessing your page, simply by requesting any file in
> > any directory except the files in the FrontPage dir. specially /_vti_pvt/.
> >
> > How to exploit this bug?
> > Simply adding /..../ in the URL addressbar.
> >
> > http://www.target.com/..../ <http://www.target.com/..../<>>
> <any_dir>/<any_file>
> >
Received on Feb 22 2000