ZH2003-23SA (security advisory): HostAdmin Path Disclosure Published: 12 august 2003 Released: 12 august 2003 Name: HostAdmin Affected Systems: current version Issue: Remote attackers can know the path of the site Author: G00db0y@zone-h.org Vendor: http://dreamcost.com/?page=hostadmin Description *********** Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in HostAdmin (and older versions?). "HostAdmin is based on PHP, MySQL, and uses HTML templates and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) which can be modified for site-wide changes by any novice". Details ******* It's possible to make a malformed http request in HostAdmin and in doing so trigger an error. The resulting error message will disclose potentially sensitive installation path information to the remote attacker. Example: http://www.site.com/pathofhostadmin/?page=' Solution: ********* The vendor has been contacted and a patch is not yet produced. Suggestions: ************ Filter the ' character. G00db0y - www.zone-h.org admin Original advisory here: http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2878/
