RE: [Axis2] : Application Error message in Acunetix Report

["fateh.singh" <fa...@newgen.co.in>]

Hi Robertlazarski,

 

Thank you for response and support provided.

The configuration you shared is for wildfly and JBoss 7 onwards. JBoss 6.X does not support this feature. Please let me know is there any other way we can configure in following server.

1) JBoss eap 6.X

2) Weblogic 12c

3) Websphere 7, 8.5

 

Regards,

Fateh Singh,

 

From: robertlazarski . [mailto:robertlazarski@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:06 AM
To: java-dev@axis.apache.org
Cc: Nitin Kumar; Puneet Pahuja; Sandeep Singh Raghuvanshi
Subject: Re: [Axis2] : Application Error message in Acunetix Report

 

 

 

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:29 PM, fateh.singh <fa...@newgen.co.in> wrote:

Hi Team,

 

We scanned the axis2 version 1.7.6 with Acunetix to find security threats. Acunetix reported an issue "Application Error Message". We are getting response code 500 with error message "Internal Server Error".

We tried replacing  "axis2.war\axis2-web\Error\error500.jsp" with custom jsp/html file and updated the same in web.xml at location "axis2.war\WEB-INF" but it did not solve our problem. Please help us removing this from Acunetix report. For your reference snippet  of Acunetix report is given below.

 

                Description

                        This alert requires manual confirmation Application error or warning messages may expose sensitive information about an application's internal workings to an attacker. Acunetix found an error or warning                           message that may disclose sensitive information. The message may also contain the location of the file that produced an unhandled exception. Consult the 'Attack details' section for more information about the              affected page.

            Impact

                        Error messages may disclose sensitive information which can be used to escalate attacks.

            Affected items

                        /axis2/services/ibps07jan_11_1_service.ibps07jan_11_1_serviceHttpEndpoint

                        Details

                                    WSDL input ibps07jan_11_1_service.ibps07jan_11_1_serviceHttpEndpoint.wfUploadWorkitem.address was set to bHpHRENnODc1b3l0MkQ1TTJyd0lJNw==

                        Pattern found:

                                    Internal Server Error

                        Request headers

                                    POST

                                    /axis2/services/ibps07jan_11_1_service.ibps07jan_11_1_serviceHttpEndpoint/wfUploadWorkitem

                                    HTTP/1.1

                                    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

                                    Cookie: JSESSIONID=2hgS8DeuNDFLGn8nUOaDlGG2; JSESSIONID=2hgS8DeuNDFLGn8nUOaDlGG2

                                    Host: 192.168.57.103:8080

                                    Content-Length: 0

                                    Connection: Keep-alive

                                    Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

                                    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.21 (KHTML, like Gecko)

                                    Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.21

                                    Acunetix-Product: WVS/11.0 (Acunetix - WVSE)

                                    Acunetix-Scanning-agreement: Third Party Scanning PROHIBITED

                                    Acunetix-User-agreement: http://www.acunetix.com/wvs/disc.htm

                                    Accept: */*

                                    

 

 

Regards,

Fateh Singh,

 

 


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Best I can tell, the issue is "sensitive information" can exposed on axis2 500 errors. 

That problem is typically handled at the application server level. 

Typically at the application servers level,  you can disable Exception stack traces and also not display the server info. 

For example on Wildfly, this config will prevent axis2 stack traces and server info from being exposed. 


             <servlet-container name="default" stack-trace-on-error="none" >
                <jsp-config display-source-fragment="false" x-powered-by="false"/>
                <websockets/>
            </servlet-container>

- R


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