Web-based arbitrary file grab?

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kanen
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Web-based arbitrary file grab?

Post by kanen »

When running newLisp in web mode and using the DragonFly framework, I've noticed redirection works fine, except when someone types something like:

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http://server//root-file
In this case, it grabs the /root-file contents and displays them as plain text in the browser.

Am I missing some obvious setting? This is clearly a problem.
. Kanen Flowers http://kanen.me .

saulgoode
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Re: Web-based arbitrary file grab?

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My speculation is that the problem is arising from the way Apache's mod_write handles parsing (assuming you are using mod_rewrite). Guile developer Andy Wingo offers a good description of this on his weblog.

kanen
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Re: Web-based arbitrary file grab?

Post by kanen »

I'm invoking newLisp and DragonFly directly:

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/usr/bin/newlisp" /var/web/framework/newlisp-redirection.lsp  -http -d 8080 -w /var/web
Short of writing a pre-processor prior to the url-rewrites in DragonFly, I just don't see any way to fix this issue, which only happens when I double slash for a root file return.

(major security issue, by the way)
saulgoode wrote:My speculation is that the problem is arising from the way Apache's mod_write handles parsing (assuming you are using mod_rewrite). Guile developer Andy Wingo offers a good description of this on his weblog.
. Kanen Flowers http://kanen.me .

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