CGI path disclosure

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Mon Oct 4 15:33:56 CEST 2004


Ahoy.

A few of the cgi's print path and names to the logfiles they show. I 
suspect this is a debugging easter egg.

While providing little real value for an authorized user, it gives a 
potential attacker information about the system. That's always a Bad Thing.

Attached are two patches. One which completely removes the printing of 
the logfile name, and one which de-canonicalizes the name and prints 
only the actual filename without the leading path.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer
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