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Basic Flaw Reveals Source Code to 3,300 Popular Websites

Submitted by admin on Thursday, 24 September 2009No Comment

“A Russian security group has posted a detailed blog post (translation here) about how they managed to extract the source code to over 3,300 websites. The group found that some of the largest and best known domains on the web, such as apache.org and php.net, amongst others, are vulnerable to an elementary information leak that exposes the structure and source of website files. A web surfer is able to extract this information by requesting the hidden metadata directories that popular version control tool Subversion creates. “

(Basic Flaw Reveals Source Code to 3,300 Popular Websites)

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