Re: [users@httpd] Tightening security on my webserver

2023-11-14 Thread Murray Collingwood
Hi Frank I should mention that a hacker found this vulnerability and sent me the URL. I'm reasonably confident this isn't coming from my PHP application. The text from the path_info is turning up in the , here's a screenshot [image: image.png] But my PHP code generates this code like this:

Re: [users@httpd] Tightening security on my webserver

2023-11-14 Thread Frank Gingras
You could look at the AcceptPathInfo directive in the meantime as well. On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 4:04 PM Frank Gingras wrote: > The URI path part of pathinfo is not "ignored", nor "considered" by the > web server. It is simply passed to the php application. If your application > chooses to

Re: [users@httpd] Tightening security on my webserver

2023-11-14 Thread Frank Gingras
The URI path part of pathinfo is not "ignored", nor "considered" by the web server. It is simply passed to the php application. If your application chooses to include it in the response, then the application must be corrected. On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 3:57 PM Murray Collingwood <

Re: [users@httpd] Tightening security on my webserver

2023-11-14 Thread Murray Collingwood
Hi Frank Yes, and I can do this, but I'm really surprised that this extra content is even being reflected back to the web user. My assumption was if I ignore anything beyond my "appwaz.php" it will be ignored by the web server so why is this text being reflected back as part of the

Re: [users@httpd] Tightening security on my webserver

2023-11-14 Thread Frank Gingras
Since you're using appwaz.php to serve your content and parsing the pathinfo, it falls back on your php application to discard values that are malicious or incorrect. On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 3:37 PM Murray Collingwood < mur...@focus-computing.com.au> wrote: > Good question @Frank, and yes it is.

Re: [users@httpd] Tightening security on my webserver

2023-11-14 Thread Murray Collingwood
Good question @Frank, and yes it is. Cheers Murray On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 at 07:36, Frank Gingras wrote: > To be clear, is sobs.com.au your domain name? > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 1:26 PM Murray Collingwood < > mur...@focus-computing.com.au> wrote: > >> Hi folks >> >> First time poster. I

Re: [users@httpd] Tightening security on my webserver

2023-11-14 Thread Frank Gingras
To be clear, is sobs.com.au your domain name? On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 1:26 PM Murray Collingwood < mur...@focus-computing.com.au> wrote: > Hi folks > > First time poster. I recently became aware that hackers were able to > include scripts in my URLs that would run (when reflected back to the >

[users@httpd] Tightening security on my webserver

2023-11-14 Thread Murray Collingwood
Hi folks First time poster. I recently became aware that hackers were able to include scripts in my URLs that would run (when reflected back to the client web browser). Is there a simple configuration in Apache that allows me to apply strict rules to the URLs that would stop this happening?