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Full Path Disclosure
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Last revision: 09/12/2008
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Description
Full Path Disclosure (FPD) vulnerabilities enable the attacker to see the path to the webroot/file. Eg: /home/omg/htdocs/file/. Certain vulnerabilities such as using the load_file() (within an SQL injection) query to view page sources require the attacker to have the full path to the file they wish to view.
Risk Factors
TBD
Examples
- Empty Array
If we have a site that uses a method of requesting a page like this:
http://site.com/index.php?page=about
We can use a method of opening and closing braces and causing the page to output an error. This method would look like this:
http://site.com/index.php?page[]=about
This renders the page defunct thus spitting out an error:
Warning: opendir(Array): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/omg/htdocs/index.php on line 84 Warning: pg_num_rows(): supplied argument ... in /usr/home/example/html/pie/index.php on line 131
- Null Session Cookie
Another popular and very reliable method of producing errors containing a FPD is to give the page a nulled session using Javascript Injections. A simple injection using this method would look something like so:
javascript:void(document.cookie="PHPSESSID=");
By simply setting the PHPSESSID cookie to nothing (null) we get an error.
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: The session id contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and '-,' in /home/example/public_html/includes/functions.php on line 2
Related Threat Agents
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Related Vulnerabilities
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Related Controls
This vulnerability is prevented simply by turning error reporting off so your code does not spit out errors.
error_reporting(0);
