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robot.txt / robots.txt exists on the Web Server (HTTP)

🗓️ 03 Nov 2005 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 1999 SecuriTeamType 
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Web Servers can use a file called /robot(s).txt to ask search engines to ignore certain files and directories. By nature this file cannot be used to protect private files from public read access

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 1999 SecuriTeam
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.10302");
  script_version("2024-02-26T14:36:40+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-26 14:36:40 +0000 (Mon, 26 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N");
  script_name("robot.txt / robots.txt exists on the Web Server (HTTP)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 1999 SecuriTeam");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("find_service.nasl", "httpver.nasl", "global_settings.nasl");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
  script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.robotstxt.org/");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.robotstxt.org/norobots-rfc.txt");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Any serious web search engine will honor the /robot(s).txt file
  and not scan the files and directories listed there.

  Any entries listed in this file are not even hidden anymore.");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Web Servers can use a file called /robot(s).txt to ask search engines
  to ignore certain files and directories. By nature this file can not be used to protect private files
  from public read access.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Review the content of the /robot(s).txt file and consider removing the
  files from the server or protect them in other ways in case you actually intended non-public availability.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"Mitigation");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  exit(0);
}

include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");

port = http_get_port(default:80);

foreach url(make_list("/robot.txt", "/robots.txt")) {

  res = http_get_cache(port:port, item:url);
  if(! res || res !~ "^HTTP/1\.[01] 200" || res !~ "Content-Type\s*:\s*text/plain")
    continue;

  body = http_extract_body_from_response(data:res);
  body = chomp(body);
  if(!body)
    continue;

  if(egrep(string:body, pattern:"^\s*((Dis)?allow|User-agent|Noindex|host|Sitemap|crawl-delay)\s*:", icase:TRUE)) {
    report = string("The file '", http_report_vuln_url(url:url, port:port, url_only:TRUE), "' contains the following:\n", body);
    log_message(port:port, data:report);
  }
}

exit(0);

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