Web Server Attacks

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While testing a web application in development, you notice that the web server does not properly ignore the “dot dot slash” (../) character string and instead returns the file listing of a folder structure of the server. What kind of attack is possible in this scenario?

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While testing a web application in development, you notice that the web server does not properly ignore the “dot dot slash” (../) character string and instead returns the file listing of a folder structure of the server. What kind of attack is possible in this scenario? Option 1 : Denial of service Option 2 : Cross-site scripting Option 3 : SQL injection Option 4 : Directory traversal   1. Denial of service The Denial of …

While testing a web application in development, you notice that the web server does not properly ignore the “dot dot slash” (../) character string and instead returns the file listing of a folder structure of the server. What kind of attack is possible in this scenario? Read More »

Web-Server-Attacks

Web Server Attacks

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The Web Server Attacks which is an attacker can use many techniques to compromise a web server such as DoS/DDoS, DNS server hijacking, DNS amplification, directory traversal, Man-in-the-Middle (MITM)/sniffing, phishing, website defacement, web server misconfiguration, HTTP response splitting, web cache poisoning, SSH brute force, web server password cracking, and so on. This section describes these possible attacks in detail. Web Server Attack Module is part of Certified Ethical Hacker training at Infosavvy – We look at …

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