Null htw ciwebhitsfile

Unlike my normal habit of avoiding to broadcast exploitable information, but since Microsoft themselves are telling the world already, take a look in your IIS logs for hits like:. Don't be blindsided if you do not find "null. The one workaround that seems to be functioning is to install and configure -if not done so already- URLScan. Andrew wrote in with: " use URLScan to block all requests for htw files or, better yet, set URLScan never to permit requests for any extensions but ones you know you need ".

URLScan as a workaround remains an ugly solution as it uses filtering as an afterthought instead of proper security by design, but then again, not that many web servers come with security as one of the very top requirements. Log In or Sign Up for Free! IIS 5. Feel free to write in if you know more effective alternatives: Most probably there is a way to remove something or change some registry setting to prevent this, unfortunately exactly what is neither documented nor validated.

Eric told us to " If you don't use the web hits functionality, a simple workaround would be to remove the script mapping for. Without a script mapping, IIS should treat the file as static content.

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