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sbox Path Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9854
Release Date: 2003-09-26
Popularity: 5,228 views

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

Software:sbox 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in sbox, which can be exploited by malicious people to see path information.

The problem is that the error message returned when requesting a non-existant CGI script includes the full path to the user's "cgi-bin" directory. This also reveals the username (name of home directory often equals username).

The issue has been reported to affect version 1.04.

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