Plugin ID | 4 |
Plugin name | HTTP 404 enumeration |
Plugin filename | HTTP 404 enumeration.plugin |
Plugin filesize | 3115 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 | 2003/11/10 |
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 HEAD /404check.html HTTP/1.0\n\n|sleep|close|pattern_exists HTTP/#.# 404 * |
Plugin procedure exploit | open|send GET /404check.html HTTP/1.0\n\n|sleep|close|pattern_exists HTTP/#.# *Apache/#.* Server at * Port #* |
Plugin detection accuracy | 60 |
Plugin exploit accuracy | 97 |
Plugin comment | This plugin was written with the ATK Attack Editor. |
Bug affected | web servers |
Bug not affected | Usually misconfigured web servers |
Bug vulnerability class | Configuration |
Bug description | The web server responds with an 404 Not Found error message. An attacker may indicate the existence of web documents. He could gather sensitive data. |
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. Do not allow the web server to include sensitive data (e.g. web server name and version) into the 404 Not Found report. |
Bug fixing time | 30 minutes |
Bug exploit availability | Yes |
Bug remote | Yes |
Bug local | Yes |
Bug severity | Low |
Bug popularity | 9 |
Bug simplicity | 9 |
Bug impact | 6 |
Bug risk | 5 |
Bug Symantec NetRecon rating | 42 |
Bug check tools | Many CGI scanners are able to do a similar check. |
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.whitehatsec.com/presentations/Black_Hat_Europe_2001/Black_Hat_Europe2001_Presentation.ppt |