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Stronghold swish Search Script Information Disclosure

medium Nessus Plugin ID 11230

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability was reported in a sample script provided with Red Hat's Stronghold web server. A remote user can determine the web root directory path.

A remote user can send a request to the Stronghold sample script swish to cause the script to reveal the full path to the webroot directory.

Apparently, swish may also display system-specific information in the HTML returned by the script

Solution

remove it

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 11230

File Name: stronghold_swish.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 2/12/2003

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2002

Reference Information

BID: 4785