Odd server side scripts source disclosure vulnerability

From: George Hedfors (george.hedfors@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 05:18:41 EDT


Pen-testers,

I'm currently working on server, which reacts strangely to stripped
HTTP request headers. For instance, removing the "Host:" from the HTTP
header makes the remote server sending the source of the server side
scripts (jsp) instead of executing them. This is an Apache with some
sort of Tomcat installed. Does anyone know what kind of
misconfiguration that could cause this? Me and my co-worker has
seriously no idea.

Thanks, George.

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