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Vulnerability Assessment Details

empower cgi path

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Attempts to find the location of the remote web root

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment
It was possible to
get the physical location of a
virtual web directory of this host by
issuing the command :

GET /cgi-bin/empower?DB=whatever HTTP/1.0

Usually, the less the attacker knows about your
system, the better it feels, so you should
correct this problem.

Solution : use a newer version of this CGI
Network Security Threat Level: Low

Networks Security ID: 2374

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2001 Renaud Deraison

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