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IlohaMail Insecure Install

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Searches for the existence of conf/conf.inc

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is running Ilohamail, a web-based mail interface written
in PHP.

The remote installation of this software is not configured properly,
in the sense that it permits any user to download its configuration
files by requesting one of these files :

/conf/conf.inc
/conf/custom_auth.inc

The content of these files may contain sensitive information which may
help a possible hacker to organize better attacks against the remote host.

Solution : Prevent the download of .inc files at the web server level
Risk Factor : Medium

Networks Security ID: 12252

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Tenable Network Security

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