[Pauldotcom] with full read access what would you read

Bill Swearingen hevnsnt at i-hacked.com
Tue Nov 2 20:31:11 UTC 2010


I have found myself in a very similar situation.. So then I moved on to find
an info disclosure bug (generally an SQL error) that shows me the web root.


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Robin Wood <robin at digininja.org> wrote:

> On a recent test I found a website with a directory traversal attack
> that let me read any file. The server was Win 2003 and I read the
> obvious win.ini and boot.ini. I then read the Administrators
> desktop.ini to prove I could. I tried but couldn't read the registry
> files (not expected but worth trying).
>
> The web server was an unusual one, part of an app so I couldn't find
> the web root. The IIS web root just had an "Under Construction" file
> in it so nothing interesting in there.
>
> So, without being able to do directory listings to see what is there,
> what files would you read on this box and why?
>
> Robin
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