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got another "security report" from someone who found a directory listing on the #curl site insisting it is an "information exposure" vulnerability

Even though the entire thing is also available in a public git repository.

Closed.

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I had a rather aggressive one insisting that directory listings on mirror.accum.se was a vulnerability a couple of months ago.

And that I was exposing private information, because some files had "password" in the name, like libpam_password.x.y...

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

An unscientific search seems to indicate that more than 7% of the vulnerability reports we get in #curl concerns directory listings on the website.

That's about half the rate of the legitimate reports.

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

change the banner with a huge title: "This is not an information disclosure vulnerability. Reporters will be prosecuted for harassment".
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Hey the git repository is another information disclosure!

I'm assuming y'all considered getting someone like HackerOne to triage these reports for you? I'm curious why you didn't want to use them?

in reply to Jonathan Yu

@jawnsy 1. we are using hackerone. 2. closing one of these silly things takes like 3 seconds of my time. Not a bother.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

we regularly got those reports at @metalab, because they were usually quite annoying we're now redirecting /.git to the repository's website...
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@metalab nice, we haven't had any reports since, but I guess we're also not really a target for those "specialists" ;)
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Fun story from work.

For context we do "digital asset management", aka file storage with fancy features on top.

We had a pentesting company test our product. One of the things they raised was that it was possible to make some files available without additional security. Aka like public files on a web server 🙃

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