V-221546

Discussion

The goal is to completely control the web user's experience in navigating any portion of the web document root directories. Ensuring all web content directories have 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 being able to obtain information about the web server's directory structure by locating directories without default pages. In the scenario, the web server will display to the user a listing of the files in the directory being accessed. By having a default hosted application web page, the anonymous web user will not obtain directory browsing information or an error message that reveals the server type and version.

Check Content

1. Open $DOMAIN_HOME/config/fmwconfig/components/OHS/<componentName>/httpd.conf and every .conf file (e.g., ssl.conf) included in it with an editor.

2. Search for the "DocumentRoot" directives at the server and virtual host configuration scopes.

3. Go to the location specified as the value for each "DocumentRoot" directive (e.g., cd $DOMAIN_HOME/config/fmwconfig/components/OHS/instances/ohs1/htdocs).

4. Check for the existence of any index.html file in the directory specified as the "DocumentRoot" and its subdirectories (e.g., find . -type d, find . -type f -name index.html, cat index.html).

5. If an index.html files is not found or there is content in the file that is irrelevant to the website, this is a finding.