CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.5%
Various application or web servers / products are prone to an
information disclosure vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.117221");
script_version("2023-06-16T05:06:18+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0281");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-06-16 05:06:18 +0000 (Fri, 16 Jun 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-02-11 15:27:45 +0000 (Thu, 11 Feb 2021)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_name("'/WEB-INF../' Information Disclosure Vulnerability (HTTP)");
script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web Servers");
script_dependencies("find_service.nasl", "no404.nasl", "webmirror.nasl", "DDI_Directory_Scanner.nasl", "global_settings.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 8080);
script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107635084830547&w=2");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9617");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Various application or web servers / products are prone to an
information disclosure vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Sends a crafted HTTP GET request and checks the response.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"The following products are known to be affected:
- Caucho Resin version 2.1.12 on Apache HTTP server version 1.3.29
Other products and versions might be affected as well.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The servlet specification prohibits servlet containers from
serving resources in the '/WEB-INF' and '/META-INF' directories of a web application archive
directly to clients.
This means that URLs like:
http://example.com/WEB-INF/web.xml
will return an error message, rather than the contents of the deployment descriptor.
However, some application or web servers / products are prone to a vulnerability that exposes this
information if the client requests a URL like this instead:
http://example.com/WEB-INF../web.xml
http://example.com/web-inf../web.xml
(note the double dot ('..') after 'WEB-INF').");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Based on the information provided in this file an attacker might
be able to gather additional info and / or sensitive data about the application / the application
/ web server.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please contact the vendor for more information on possible fixes.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_vul");
exit(0);
}
# nb: resin-web.xml for Caucho Resin is separately tested in common/2023/caucho/gb_resin_CVE-2004-0281_active.nasl
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
include("list_array_func.inc");
base_pattern = "^\s*<(web-app( .+|>$)|servlet(-mapping)?>$)";
extra_pattern = "^\s*</(web-app|servlet(-mapping)?)>$";
port = http_get_port( default:8080 );
foreach dir( make_list_unique( "/", http_cgi_dirs( port:port ) ) ) {
if( dir == "/" )
dir = "";
url = dir + "/WEB-INF/web.xml";
res = http_get_cache( item:url, port:port );
# nb: Avoid excessive reporting if the file is directly accessible (already checked by
# 2018/gb_sensitive_file_disclosures_http.nasl and 2021/gb_web-inf_plain_info_disclosure.nasl).
if( res &&
egrep( string:res, pattern:base_pattern, icase:FALSE ) &&
egrep( string:res, pattern:extra_pattern, icase:FALSE ) )
continue;
url = dir + "/WEB-INF../web.xml";
req = http_get( item:url, port:port );
res = http_keepalive_send_recv( port:port, data:req, bodyonly:TRUE );
if( res &&
egrep( string:res, pattern:base_pattern, icase:FALSE ) &&
egrep( string:res, pattern:extra_pattern, icase:FALSE ) ) {
report = http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url );
report += '\nResponse (truncated):\n\n' + substr( res, 0, 1500 );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
# We want to check the lowercase variant as well.
url = str_replace( string:url, find:"/WEB-INF../web.xml", replace:"/web-inf../web.xml" );
req = http_get( item:url, port:port );
res = http_keepalive_send_recv( port:port, data:req, bodyonly:TRUE );
if( ! res )
continue;
if( egrep( string:res, pattern:base_pattern, icase:FALSE ) &&
egrep( string:res, pattern:extra_pattern, icase:FALSE ) ) {
report = http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url );
report += '\nResponse (truncated):\n\n' + substr( res, 0, 1500 );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
}
exit( 99 );