All depends on in the request processing you apply the fix. Its possible that URL Decoding hasn't occuried yet, whereby I can bypass your filter pretty easily. Not to mention Unicode...
Billy Hoffman -- Lead Researcher, SPI Labs SPI Dynamics Inc. - http://www.spidynamics.com Phone: 678-781-4800 Direct: 678-781-4845 -----Original Message----- From: ascii [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 7:29 PM To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] Plain Old Webserver - The coolest firefox extension pdp (architect) wrote: > hei man, this is not a news :) hehe, the maintainer should update the changelog with this feature then :-) i suggest this fix for the directory traversal bug path = str_replace('../', '', path); regards, Francesco 'ascii' Ongaro http://www.ush.it/ ..././..././..././..././ how can't you love funsec? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Join us on IRC: irc.freenode.net #webappsec The Web Security Mailing List: http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/ The Web Security Mailing List Archives: http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/ http://www.webappsec.org/rss/websecurity.rss [RSS Feed] _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/