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Check for dangerous IIS default files
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Web Servers
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Mitigation
Created
Created
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The file viewcode.asp is a default IIS files which can give a malicious user a lot of unnecessary information about your file system or source files. Specifically, viewcode.asp can allow a remote user to potentially read any file on a webserver hard drive. Example: http://example.com/pathto/viewcode.asp?source=../../../../../../autoexec.bat
Solution
Solution
If you do not need these files, then delete them, otherwise use suitable access control lists to ensure that the files are not world-readable.