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New Web Application Attack - Insecure Indexing

Posted by timothy on from the trawling-for-patterns dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Take a look at 'The Insecure Indexing Vulnerability - Attacks Against Local Search Engines' by Amit Klein. This is a new article about 'insecure indexing.' It's a good read -- shows you how to find 'invisible files' on a web server and moreover, how to see contents of files you'd usually get a 401/403 response for, using a locally installed search engine that indexes files (not URLs)."

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  1. indexing google by page275 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Even though here's about internal indexing, it reminded me of the old fashion google indexing: Search google with some sensitive terms such as : 'index of /' *.pdf *.ps