Plugin ID | 3 |
Plugin name | HTTP index.html check |
Plugin filename | HTTP index.html check.plugin |
Plugin filesize | 2860 bytes |
Plugin family | HTTP |
Plugin created name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin created email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin created web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin created company | computec.ch |
Plugin created date | 2003/11/06 |
Plugin updated name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin updated email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin updated web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin updated company | computec.ch |
Plugin updated date | 2004/11/13 |
Plugin version | 2.0 |
Plugin changelog | Corrected the severity and added the NetRecon rating in version 1.3. Corrected the plugin structure and added the accuracy values in 1.4. Improved the pattern matching and added the changelog in 2.0 |
Plugin protocol | tcp |
Plugin port | 80 |
Plugin procedure detection | open|send GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\n\n|sleep|close|pattern_exists HTTP/#.# 200 * |
Plugin detection accuracy | 95 |
Plugin comment | This plugin was written with the ATK Attack Editor. |
Bug affected | All web servers |
Bug vulnerability class | Configuration |
Bug description | The file /index.html was found on the web server. This is normally the default file for direct connection attempts. An attacker may gain the information that on this webserver only static web pages (HTML) were used. He then is not very interested in interactive attacks (e.g. PHP or ASP). |
Bug solution | A service if not needed should be de-installed or disabled. If this is not possible, an access control list (ACL) with firewalling should be applied to this port. And if possible change the welcome banner to confuse an attacker and give him false information. |
Bug fixing time | 15 minutes |
Bug exploit availability | Yes |
Bug remote | Yes |
Bug local | Yes |
Bug severity | Low |
Bug popularity | 10 |
Bug simplicity | 9 |
Bug impact | 3 |
Bug risk | 4 |
Bug Symantec NetRecon rating | 42 |
Bug check tools | You can do this check with every web browser. |
Source CVE | CVE-1999-0633 |
Source Literature | Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz, February 25, 2003, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, ISBN 0072227427 |
Source Misc. | http://www.computec.ch |