[AWS] Nessus resports security hole in aws?

Pascal Obry p.obry@wanadoo.fr
Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:32:28 +0200


Preben,

 > tried the text_input and now I get a bunch of serious security alerts:
 > 
 > Problem is that I don't understand where these .cgi etc.. files are.
 > They are not on my system. Is the problem that aws doesn't give a 404
 > when one write http://localhost:8080/somelink.html and then nessus
 > thinks this file is installed?

Yes that's the only explanation I have. It would be more interesting to run
Nessus with the WS demo. It does return a 404 if a file is not found.

Pascal.

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