Host Directory Listing information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Host (the affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Directory Listing Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A URL for a WWW directory allows auto-indexing, which provides a list of all files in that directory if it does not contain an index.html file.

The weakness was presented 01/01/1999. This vulnerability is known as CVE-1999-0569. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/23/2021). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue. Due to its background and reception, this vulnerability has a historic impact.

It is declared as highly functional. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10039 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by applying the configuration setting .Proper firewalling of tcp/80 (Web Services) is able to address this issue. It is possible to mitigate the problem by adding .htaccess as an authentication mechanism. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be the change of configuration settings.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (90) and Tenable (10039). See 14350 for similar entry.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional

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Nessus ID: 10039
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Recommended: Config
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06/19/2014 +4137 days 🔍
06/23/2021 +2561 days 🔍

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Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-0569 (🔍)
X-Force: 90
Vulnerability Center: 950 - Web Server without index.html, Info

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/20/2014 00:53
Updated: 06/23/2021 08:53
Changes: 06/20/2014 00:53 (56), 05/09/2019 16:51 (2), 06/23/2021 08:53 (3)
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