On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:44:46AM -0700, D. Rick Anderson wrote:
> whoa ... half the message is gone! oh .. DUH! .. I put a period on a
> line with two CRs! LOL .. the mail server thought it was done! ... here
> it is again:
(your MTA is not very bright)
> I'm trying to make our network 'nessus tight', but my Apache server
> keeps coming up with one last issue:
>
> The following CGI directories are browsable:
>
> <PERIOD GOES HERE>
>
> I've even tried disabling CGI on the server completely, but it keeps
> coming up. What's the fix for this?
By any chance, is the front page of your web server the listing of a
directory ? (like : "Index of /"). If so, then Nessus considers it as a
directory hosting CGIs, because of the ?A=D (and such) options that
allow you to re-sort the output, so technically this is not a false
positive.
-- Renaud