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Home : Advisories : UltraBoard cgi directory permission problem

Title: UltraBoard cgi directory permission problem
Released by: mat@hacksware.com
Date: 12th January 2001
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   Hacksware Bug Report



1. Name: UltraBoard cgi directory permission problem

2. Release Date: 2001.1.12

3. Affected Application:

 UltraBoard 2000 Personal Edition

 Version 2.11

 http://www.ub2k.com/downloads/UB211PEB1.zip

4. Author: mat@hacksware.com

5. Type: Configuration Error

6. Explanation

 In default installation, following Directories below ub2k cgi installtion directory have 777 permission.

  ./Private/Skins

  ./Private/Database

  ./Private/Backups

 You can add some cgi scripts to theses directories and can gain webserver uid.

7. Exploits

 Refer to Explation.

8. Solution

 chmod 755 `find  -perm 777`

  ub2k cgi directory: the directory where you installed ub2k cgi files.



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