blogtorrent remote/local user password disclosure

[Emanuele Gentili]

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Security Advisory 2005-0x00

Software: BlogTorrent 0.92 <=
Vendor: http://www.blogtorrent.com/
Author: LazyCrs && pjphem
Date: 10/07/2005
Type: Remote/Local User Password Disclosure

#0x01 - Description BlogTorrent

BlogTorrent is software that makes it much easier to share and download
large file
useing the bittorrent protocol. That blog is easy to install, it don't
require
MySQL, Blog Torrent is easy for users: even if they don't know what
bitorrent is,
they get an installer that downloads the file they want,
blogtorrent makes publishing with bittorrent painless.

#0x02 - Bug

BlogTorrent puts precious information as user and password, This and' caused
because' the data related to the admin acount are saved in a text file,
it can visible with browser.

#0x03 - POC

http://test/path_of_blog/data/newusers
=
d40:14ae696abdca1688dd577fe486c3981f331457b0d7:Cre atedi1120957648e5:Email17:email@email4:Hash40:d7b8 2821fe725305bded2fab9e91ed1e0e6fd93bee

Username (crypt in md5) -> 14ae696abdca1688dd577fe486c3981f331457b0d7
Password (crypt in md5) -> d7b82821fe725305bded2fab9e91ed1e0e6fd93bee

#0x04 - Solution

The solution is set the permissions on 'data/' 'torrents/' type:
chmod 700 data/ ; chmod 700 torrents/

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[trashtrash@free.fr]

The proposed fix does not work.
How about placing a .htaccess with deny from all in the data and torrents directories ?

I'm not sure that there is a vulnerability. My version of blogtorrent (<0.92) has automatically created the .htaccess...