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Gratipay · Report #203384

HTTP trace method is enabled on gip.rocks

Validstatus
mediumseverity
5upvotes
8 Apr 2017disclosed

How it was found

Hello,

HTTP TRACE method is enabled on your server which should not be enabled. It can lead to cross site tracing !

Cross site tracing: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross_Site_Tracing

curl -X TRACE http://gip.rocks/ -vv
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
*   Trying 184.73.218.93...
* Connected to gip.rocks (184.73.218.93) port 80 (#0)
> TRACE / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: gip.rocks
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: keep-alive
* Server gunicorn/18.0 is not blacklisted
< Server: gunicorn/18.0
< Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 10:59:49 GMT
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< Via: 1.1 vegur
< 

Mitigation:

Disable TRACE method support on your server.

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