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How to disable the HTTP TRACE /TRACK method to remove this Website Vulnerabilities for IIS/Apache

Asked by: Brijeshk9

The remote web server supports the TRACE and/or TRACK methods. TRACE and TRACK are HTTP methods which are used to debug web server connections. The HTTP TRACE method, as described in RFC 2516 of the HTTP 1.1 standard, is used for debugging and network analysis purposes. When enabled, a remote attacker could leverage this functionality with known cross-site scripting and other Web browser vulnerabilities, to obtain sensitive information about the Web server, including server cookies and authentication information. The attacker could then use this information to launch further attacks against the affected Web server

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Answers

 

by: julianmatzPosted on 2009-04-03 at 22:55:40ID: 24066062

I presume you have the latest stable release of Apache, in which case you should be able to use the following in your httpd.conf to turn this off:

TraceEnable off

Also, you might be interested in the Apache module, mod_security:

http://www.modsecurity.org/

 

by: Brijeshk9Posted on 2009-04-05 at 06:33:27ID: 24071441

and what to do with IIS 5 & 6.........?

 

by: julianmatzPosted on 2009-04-05 at 10:20:24ID: 24072142

You might find this interesting for IIS 4 and higer:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/cc242650.aspx

 

by: Brijeshk9Posted on 2009-04-06 at 21:31:34ID: 24083942

can anyone helpl me to provide the excat steps we need to perform on it in IIS/Apache..!

 

by: julianmatzPosted on 2009-04-06 at 23:30:27ID: 24084363

Sure.

For Apache:

1. Open up your Apache configuration.

2. Add following lines:

RewriteEngine On
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
 RewriteRule .* - [F]


3. Save your configuration file.

4. Restart Apache.

For IIS:

1. Download the Setup.exe file for UrlScan 2.5.
(Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=23d18937-dd7e-4613-9928-7f94ef1c902a&displaylang=en )


2. Double-click the Setup.exe icon.

3. Review the agreement in the UrlScan Installer Package End User Agreement and then click Yes to accept the agreement and continue. If you click No, the installer will close.

4. When the installer completes, the following message is displayed: "UrlScan has been successfully installed." Click OK to close the installer.

Note: according to US Detp. of Homeland Security, IIS 6 does not seem to be subject to the vulnerability.

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/288308

 

by: Brijeshk9Posted on 2009-04-06 at 23:59:11ID: 24084493

Thanks ,I  have installed the url scan 2.5 on my server(win 2k),is that enough or I need to do more with this url scan on my server running iis 5 to disable HTTP TRACE /TRACK method .

 

by: Brijeshk9Posted on 2009-04-07 at 00:07:52ID: 24084525

as per the url shared by you i got:one line in urlscan.ini ie:
UseAllowVerbs=1   ; if 1, use [AllowVerbs] section, else use [DenyVerbs] section,so here i need to change the value form 1 to 0 or i need to replace this UseAllowVerbs with UseDenyVerbs...?

 

by: julianmatzPosted on 2009-04-07 at 10:13:52ID: 24089629

Set UseAllowVerbs to 1 and define your HTTP methods in AllowVerbs (UseAllowVerbs=1)

You should define the following methods:

HEAD, GET, POST

All other methods including TRACK will be denied using this configuration.

 

by: julianmatzPosted on 2009-04-07 at 10:16:21ID: 24089659

When UseAllowVerbs is set to 1, DenyVerbs will be ignored and any methods not defined in AllowVerbs will automatically get rejected.

On the other hand, if you want to ONLY deny the TRACK method, then you could set UseAllowVerbs to 0 and put TRACK into DenyVerbs. Using this configuration, all methods defined in AllowVerbs will be ignored.

 

by: Brijeshk9Posted on 2009-04-07 at 22:17:14ID: 24094173

Ok,i have chnaged the value ofUseAllowVerbs to 0 and i have some values given there in DenyVerbs
Please correct me if i have given the wrong entry for TRCE/TRACK.
FROM URLSCAN.INI
********************************************************************
[options]
UseAllowVerbs=0                ; if 1, use [AllowVerbs] section, else use [DenyVerbs] section
UseAllowExtensions=0           ; if 1, use [AllowExtensions] section, else use [DenyExtensions] section
NormalizeUrlBeforeScan=1       ; if 1, canonicalize URL before processing
VerifyNormalization=1          ; if 1, canonicalize URL twice and reject request if a change occurs
AllowHighBitCharacters=0       ; if 1, allow high bit (ie. UTF8 or MBCS) characters in URL
AllowDotInPath=0               ; if 1, allow dots that are not file extensions
RemoveServerHeader=0           ; if 1, remove "Server" header from response
EnableLogging=1                ; if 1, log UrlScan activity
PerProcessLogging=0            ; if 1, the UrlScan.log filename will contain a PID (ie. UrlScan.123.log)
AllowLateScanning=0            ; if 1, then UrlScan will load as a low priority filter.
PerDayLogging=1                ; if 1, UrlScan will produce a new log each day with activity in the form UrlScan.010101.log
RejectResponseUrl=             ; UrlScan will send rejected requests to the URL specified here. Default is /<Rejected-by-UrlScan>
UseFastPathReject=0            ; If 1, then UrlScan will not use the RejectResponseUrl or allow IIS to log the request

; If RemoveServerHeader is 0, then AlternateServerName can be
; used to specify a replacement for IIS's built in 'Server' header
AlternateServerName=

LogLongUrls=0                  ; If 1, then up to 128K per request can be logged.
                               ; If 0, then only 1k is allowed.

;
; LoggingDirectory can be used to specify the directory where the
; log file will be created.  This value should be the absolute path
; (ie. c:\some\path).  If not specified, then UrlScan will create
; the log in the same directory where the UrlScan.dll file is located.
;

LoggingDirectory=C:\WINNT\system32\inetsrv\urlscan\logs

[AllowVerbs]

;
; The verbs (aka HTTP methods) listed here are those commonly
; processed by a typical IIS server.
;
; Note that these entries are effective if "UseAllowVerbs=1"
; is set in the [Options] section above.
;

GET
HEAD
POST

[DenyVerbs]

;
; The verbs (aka HTTP methods) listed here are used for publishing
; content to an IIS server via WebDAV.
;
; Note that these entries are effective if "UseAllowVerbs=0"
; is set in the [Options] section above.
;
TRACK
TRACE
PROPFIND
PROPPATCH
MKCOL
DELETE
PUT
COPY
MOVE
LOCK
UNLOCK
OPTIONS
SEARCH
*********************************************************

 

by: julianmatzPosted on 2009-04-07 at 22:22:29ID: 24094186

That looks ok to me, but I would set UseAllowVerbs to '1' instead of '0' because then UrlScan will ONLY allow GET, HEAD and POST and deny everything else, including what you have in your [DenyVerbs] list.

 

by: Brijeshk9Posted on 2009-04-08 at 01:03:17ID: 24094758

but that is already configured in my IIS 5,and i am getting this tarck/tarce problem...!

 

by: julianmatzPosted on 2009-04-08 at 08:12:52ID: 24098157

Use the configuration you have posted above

UseAllowVerbs=0

TRACK/TRACE should then get blocked.

 

by: Brijeshk9Posted on 2009-04-14 at 07:16:34ID: 24138435

ok,Thanks,let me try it..!

 

by: Brijeshk9Posted on 2009-04-21 at 19:25:56ID: 24201015

yes its working now,now I want to put a page/URL for all the rejected requests by URL scan: "/<Rejected-By-UrlScan>"
can we do it..!

 

by: Brijeshk9Posted on 2009-05-21 at 22:32:15ID: 24447941

any suggestion...!

 

by: Brijeshk9Posted on 2009-05-27 at 08:15:00ID: 31566350

Thank you

 

by: baberaminPosted on 2010-03-17 at 06:04:40ID: 27723794

Hi,

I'm using Tomcat 5.5.23 and I'm not able to fine httpd.conf file. Please help.

20120131-EE-VQP-002

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