CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
88.9%
The WF-Chat allows an attacker to view information about registered users by requesting the files ‘!nicks.txt’ and ‘!pwds.txt’.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if(description)
{
script_id(11688);
script_version("1.23");
script_cve_id("CVE-2003-1540");
script_bugtraq_id(7147);
name["english"] = "WF-Chat User Account Disclosure";
script_name(english:name["english"]);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server contains a CGI application that is prone to an
information disclosure vulnerability." );
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The WF-Chat allows an attacker to view information about registered
users by requesting the files '!nicks.txt' and '!pwds.txt'." );
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://lists.insecure.org/lists/bugtraq/2003/Mar/0271.html" );
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Delete this CGI." );
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(200);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2003/06/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_end_attributes();
summary["english"] = "Checks for the presence of !pwds.txt";
script_summary(english:summary["english"]);
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2003-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
family["english"] = "CGI abuses";
script_family(english:family["english"]);
script_dependencie("http_version.nasl", "no404.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
exit(0);
}
#
# The script code starts here
#
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");
port = get_http_port(default:80, embedded: 0);
if (get_kb_item("www/no404/"+port)) exit(0);
dirs = list_uniq(make_list("/chat", cgi_dirs()));
foreach dir (dirs)
{
w = http_send_recv3(method:"GET", item:dir + "/!pwds.txt", port:port);
if (isnull(w)) exit(1, "The web server did not answer");
if(ereg(pattern:"^HTTP/[0-9]\.[0-9] 200 ", string:w[0]))
{
data = w[2];
notme = egrep(pattern:"^[^ ].*$", string:data);
if(notme == NULL ){
w = http_send_recv3(method:"GET", item:dir + "/chatlog.txt", port:port);
if (isnull(w)) exit(1, "The web server did not answer");
res = strcat(w[0], w[1], '\r\n', w[2]);
if(egrep(pattern:"[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ .[0-9].*", string:res))
{
security_warning(port);
exit(0);
}
}
}
}