Files obtained

Risk Level: Medium risk vulnerability  Medium

Check or Attack Name: filesgrabbed

Platforms: Any
Description:

Specific files were obtained through various vulnerabilities. This check allows an administrator to quickly check these critical files for misconfigurations.

Vulnerabilities that can result in sensitive files being obtained include:

  • Brute force methods
  • TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) checks
  • Anonymous FTP
  • NFS Access Files
  • Rsh
  • Sendmail Remote Execution
Remedy:

View the reports to correct vulnerabilities obtained for the following types of files:

  • ftp
  • rexec
  • rlogin
  • rsh
  • telnet
  • tftp
  • nis
References:

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