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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

During a vulnerability assessment, you discover that an organization's Apache 2.4 server accepts requests containing URL-encoded "../" sequences and returns files located outside the web-root directory. The security team needs a countermeasure that can be implemented at the web-server layer without touching application code. Which action most directly mitigates this risk?

  • Enable the ModSecurity module with the OWASP Core Rule Set to drop any request containing directory-traversal patterns.

  • Increase the MaxRequestWorkers directive to handle a larger number of simultaneous connections.

  • Disable HTTP keep-alive in httpd.conf so each request closes immediately after a response.

  • Add the directive "ServerTokens Prod" to hide detailed Apache version information.

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