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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0008054Kali LinuxKali Websites & Docspublic2022-11-14 11:20
ReporterX0RW3LL Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityblockReproducibilitysometimes
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0008054: exploit-db.com/papers does not return PDFs [500] papers/download/EDB-ID, [403] papers/docs/EDB-ID
Description

https://www.exploit-db.com/papers returns 500 Internal Server Error when downloading PDF papers, and 403 Permission Denied when previewing them
TXT-based issues like Phrack #XX, however, parse properly for both downloads and previews
Raw is also returned without issues for both PDFs and TXTs

Steps To Reproduce
  1. Navigate to the latest paper: https://www.exploit-db.com/docs/50981 [403]
  2. Attempt downloading the paper: https://www.exploit-db.com/download/50981 [500]
  3. Navigate to the first issue of Phrack 0000001: https://www.exploit-db.com/docs/42812 [200]
  4. Download the first issue of Phrack 0000001: https://www.exploit-db.com/download/42812 [200]
Additional Information

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Software Tests

firefox-esr (102.4.0esr-1)
chromium (107.0.5304.87-1)
cURL (7.85.0-1)
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Release Information

$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2022.3"
VERSION_ID="2022.3"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
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Misc. Information

Navigating to the PDF's EDB-ID using /papers/EDB-ID returns raw parsed inside the preview page
Example: https://www.exploit-db.com/papers/50981
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Activities

X0RW3LL

X0RW3LL

2022-11-14 11:20

reporter   ~0017065

Edit: corrected URL to the first issue of Phrack: https://www.exploit-db.com/papers/42812, not https://www.exploit-db.com/docs/42812

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2022-11-14 11:18 X0RW3LL New Issue
2022-11-14 11:20 X0RW3LL Note Added: 0017065