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| Test ID: | 10586 |
| Category: | CGI abuses |
| Title: | news desk |
| Summary: | NOSUMMARY |
| Description: | Description: The 'newsdesk.cgi' CGI is installed. This CGI has a well known security flaw that lets an attacker read arbitrary files with the privileges of the http daemon (usually root or nobody). Solution : remove it from /cgi-bin. Risk factor : High |
| Cross-Ref: |
BugTraq ID: 2172 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2001-0231 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2172 Bugtraq: 20010103 News Desk 1.2 CGI Vulnerbility (Google Search) http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-01/0042.html CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#496064 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/496064 XForce ISS Database: newsdesk-cgi-read-files(5898) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5898 |
| Copyright | This script is Copyright (C) 2000 Renaud Deraison |
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