bugtraq id 1328
class Design Error
cve CVE-2000-0499
remote Yes
local Yes
published June 08, 2000
updated November 10, 2000
vulnerable BEA Systems Weblogic 4.5.1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
BEA Systems Weblogic 4.0.4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
BEA Systems Weblogic 3.1.8
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
IBM Websphere Application Server 3.0.21
- Sun Solaris 8.0
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Linux kernel 2.3.x
- IBM AIX 4.3
Unify eWave ServletExec 3.0
- Sun Solaris 8.0
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT 2000
- Linux kernel 2.3.x
- IBM AIX 4.3.2
- HP HP-UX 11.4

Many webservers are case-sensitive, but do not have all possible combinations of cases in mapped extensions mapped properly.

By changing the letters in a JSP or a JHTML file extension from lower case to upper case (eg: .jsp or .jhtml becomes .JSP or .JHTML) in a URL the server does not recognize the file extension and sends the file normally. In that manner, a user is able to access the source code to those specific files.