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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

While enumerating a target's web server, you issue an HTTP TRACE request and receive a 200 OK response that reflects all request headers back to you. From a web-server security perspective, which vulnerability does this behavior expose and what broad mitigation should you recommend to the administrator?

  • The enabled TRACE verb permits Cross-Site Tracing, so the TRACE method should be disabled or blocked in the web-server configuration.

  • It confirms that directory listing is active, so auto-indexing must be turned off.

  • It shows susceptibility to HTTP response splitting attacks, so output filtering modules must be enabled.

  • It demonstrates a server-side request forgery weakness, so stricter input validation on URL parameters is required.

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