WG170 W22 - Each readable web document directory must contain either a default, home, index, or equivalent file.

Information

The goal is to completely control the web users experience in navigating any portion of the web document root directories. Ensuring all web content directories have indexing turned off or at least the equivalent of an index.html file is a significant factor to accomplish this end. Enumeration techniques, such as URL parameter manipulation, rely upon the ability to obtain information about the web server's directory structure through locating directories without default pages.

Solution

Add a default document to the applicable directories.

See Also

https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_Apache_2-2_WIN_V1R13_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|III, Rule-ID|SV-33107r1_rule, STIG-ID|WG170_W22, Vuln-ID|V-2245

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: dae8214594aa5dab35930d547332f1657206644d22a03745091346d51068039e