Option Method Enabled on web server

How it was found

Vuln Details:

I detected that OPTIONS method is allowed. This issue is reported as extra information.

Impact: Information disclosed from this page can be used to gain additional information about the target system

Remedy: Disable OPTIONS method in all production systems.

POC:

REQUEST:

OPTIONS /includes/ HTTP/1.1 Cache-Control: no-cache Referer: https://dev.twitter.com/robots.txt Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,/;q=0.5 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.170 Safari/537.36 Netsparker Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 X-Scanner: Netsparker Host: dev.twitter.com Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

RESPONSE:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK accept-ranges: bytes age: 0 allow: POST,OPTIONS,GET,HEAD,TRACE cache-control: max-age=86400 content-length: 0 content-type: httpd/unix-directory