Feature #851: Feature Request: New option "x-send-file-docroot" - Lighttpd - lighty labs

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Feature #851

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Feature Request: New option "x-send-file-docroot"

Added by Anonymous about 18 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:

Fixed

Priority:

Normal

Category:

mod_fastcgi

Target version:

1.4.40

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Description


<?php
    $file = "/etc/passwd";
            header("Content-Type: text/plain");
            header("X-LIGHTTPD-send-file: ".$file);
            flush();
            exit();
?>

Do i need more explanation ?

"allow-x-send-file" => "enable" is a very good feature, but its a little bit too powerful. So, it would be nice to restrict this function to a separate doc-root (or the same as the doc-root of the specific vhosts)

P.S: Excuse my english, i am german (nobody is perfect ;))

-- eebkiller

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Updated by darix about 18 years ago

/etc/passwd is more or less not critical. at least on linux. /etc/shadow is more critical. but that should be root only. whoever runs his webserver as root should be shot in the first place.

anyway.... x-sendfile has other problems. what if the user creates a php script that symlinks /etc/shadow into his docroot?

i personally would say: only enable x-sendfile for trusted scripts. on mass hosting environments i would leave it off. And i really wonder if a check like that would put us on the same road as php's open_basedir.

jan do we want that? at the first sight, the code for that looks trivial.

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