Title :                    MultiHTML vulnerability.
Description :        Retrieve files from the server.
Vendor status :    Notified and a new (not much improved) script is released.
 

Short description of the tool:
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MultiHTML allows you to put an SSI call where you want the HTML file to be displayed.
The SSI executes the MultiHTML program which displays whatever HTML file you have it set to
display. The main reason i'm posting this is because of the fact that this script is offerd
by many lets-expand-our-cgi-bins-to-make-us-look-good isp's.
 

The problems
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The cgi script checks the extentions of the requested file to see if it is ok. This easily can be
 tricked by using %00 ( Olaf Kirch )

http://localhost/cgi-bin/multihtml.pl?multi=/etc/passwd%00html

further their is no dcumentroot specified in the script so we do not need to use the ../../ here
because their is access to every directory on the system in question (lame). Even if their was a
documentroot and they would filter the dots then you would have to make sure that the script does
not contain any higher directory's. Because of the open(FILE, "$multi") functions in the script it
 would be easy to bypass .htaccess files.
 

The solution:
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Be a man and learn how to use ssi without a script. Or beg someone to write a new one ;)