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CGIWrap Error Message System Information Disclosure
Secunia Advisory: SA18797
Release Date: 2006-02-15
Last Update: 2006-02-23
Popularity: 4,701 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:CGIWrap 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0767


Description:
A weakness has been reported in CGIWrap, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain system information.

The weakness is caused due to certain system information being disclosed in an error message when an error occurs during the execution of a script, even when the "--with-quiet-errors" option is used. This can be exploited to disclose system information such as web server version.

The weakness has been reported in versions prior to 3.10.

Solution:
Update to version 3.10.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8209

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña.

Changelog:
2006-02-23: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=393274&group_id=8209


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