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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Virtual Host locations misconfiguration

Description

The web server has several virtual hosts. Due to an incorrect configuration of virtual hosts, files of one virtual host is located inside a directory of another one. Therefore, an attacker may access parts of the source code of your web application.

Remediation

Change vitrual hosts configuration, so each of them have a separate root directory

References

Apache Virtual Host documentation

Server Block Examples

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-200 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Configuration Source Code Disclosure

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