Redhat Stronghold File System Disclosure

Summary
Redhat Stronghold Secure Server File System Disclosure Vulnerability The problem: In Redhat Stronghold from versions 2.3 up to 3.0 a flaw exists that allows a remote attacker to disclose sensitive system files including the httpd.conf file, if a restricted access to the server status report is not enabled when using those features. This may assist an attacker in performing further attacks. By trying the following urls, an attacker can gather sensitive information: http://target/stronghold-info will give information on configuration http://target/stronghold-status will return among other information the list of request made Please note that this attack can be performed after a default installation. The vulnerability seems to affect all previous version of Stronghold. Vendor status: Patch was released (November 19, 2001)