This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Tenable Network Security
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CGI abuses
Plugin ID
10302
Bugtraq ID
CVE ID
Description:
Synopsis :
The remote web server contains a robots.txt file.
Description :
The remote host contains a file named robots.txt that is intended to
prevent web robots from visiting certain directories in a web site for
maintenance or indexing purposes. A malicious user may also be able to
use the contents of this file to learn of sensitive documents or
directories on the affected site and either retrieve them directly or
target them for other attacks.
Review the contents of the sites robots.txt file, use Robots META tags
instead of entries in the robots.txt file, and/or adjust the web
servers access controls to limit access to sensitive material.
