On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 01:18:59PM -0600, Lucas Albers wrote:

> It only appears to enumerate through these addresses:
...
> /way-board/way-board.cgi?db=/etc/passwd%00

What response do you get if you try to get the above from a system
that's supposedly vulnerable? Look at the headers and body returned. 

> > The logs on the scanned webserver show that it returned a 404 on all
> > attempted access for that file.  So it should not show that way-point is
> > installed.

The plugin doesn't look at the return code per se; instead, it looks for
something like an entry for root in /etc/passwd (using the pattern
".*root:.*:0:[01]:.*"). 

George
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