wwwstat Report Information Disclosure

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 2495

Synopsis

The remote host may give an attacker information useful for future attacks.

Description

The remote host is running the wwwstat Report generator. Wwwstat parses web logs and gives a potential attacker information regarding the hosts that have accessed the server, resources accessed, total statistics for the Web server, version of Web server and more.

Solution

Use ACLs to protect the wwwstat report.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 2495

Family: Web Servers

Published: 1/6/2005

Updated: 1/15/2016