Pablo Software Solutions Baby Web Server version 1.51 shows files and directories that reside outside the normal web root directory.
Discovered on 2003, July, 1st
Vendor: Pablo Software Solutions
Pablo's Baby Web Server is a multi threaded web server for Windows 98/NT/2k/XP. This web server can shows file and directory content that reside outside the normal FTP root directory.
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Details
The vulnerability can be done using any browser. You just have to send a dot-dot URL to retreive any file outside of the root directory.
Exploit
Here is an example of the vulnerability. The query sent was /../../../../../../winnt/system32/eula.txt :