Apache web server performs case sensitive filtering on Mac OS X HFS+ case insensitive filesystem

Overview The Apache 1.3.14 web server's file access protection scheme can be bypassed for the Mac OS X HFS+ filesystem. Description The Apache web server's file access protection scheme i.e., file request "filtering" assumes that the filesystem being protected is case sensitve. For example, in a...

nt.case.symbolic.txt

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:03:57 -0700 From: Mark To: [email protected] Subject: ALERT Case Sensitivity and Symbolic Links Prasad Dabak of Cybermedia Software Private Limited has discovered yet another security risk in Windows NT involving the operating system's case sensitivity...