>> AN HTTPD Filename Extension Remote Source Disclosure Vulnerability
Title : AN HTTPD Filename Extension Remote Source Disclosure Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-1200 CVE ID : CVE-2006-1598
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-04-03
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in AN HTTPD, which can be exploited by remote attackers to disclose sensitive information. This flaw is due to an input validation error when handling a specially crafted filename extension containing dot and space characters, which could be exploited by remote attackers to display the source code of arbitrary files (e.g. CGI) instead of an expected HTML response.
