Re: Odd server side scripts source disclosure vulnerability

From: Marek Wójcik (puzon@adm.onet.pl)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 02:24:04 EDT


On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:18:41AM +0100, George Hedfors wrote:
> Pen-testers,
>
> I'm currently working on server, which reacts strangely to stripped
> HTTP request headers. For instance, removing the "Host:" from the HTTP
> header makes the remote server sending the source of the server side
> scripts (jsp) instead of executing them. This is an Apache with some
> sort of Tomcat installed. Does anyone know what kind of
> misconfiguration that could cause this? Me and my co-worker has
> seriously no idea.
[...]

Hi!

I am far from being Apache/Tomcat guru, but what comes to my mind
is configuration with several VirtualHosts with the same DocumentRoot
and the default one not interpreting jsp scripts.

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	Marek Wójcik
	puzon@adm.onet.pl
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