Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 591293
harden httpd.conf regarding .htaccess exposure
Last modified: 2012-04-30 06:04:19 EDT
We received a report from Kenichi Maehashi regarding the Apache directive to keep .htaccess files protected. Depending on the contents of an .htaccess file, it might be exposed due to how the directive is written (apparently it deviates from upstream as well). <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> Should instead be: <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All </Files> Without the above change, an .htaccess file (allowed via AllowOverride All or AuthConfig): Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 192.168.0.0/16 ErrorDocument 401 /blog/401.html AuthUserFile "/home/blog/.htpasswds/public_html/blog/wp-admin/passwd" AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted" require valid-user Satisfy Any can be displayed by a user who authenticates, when it should never be displayed under any circumstances. Note: I don't consider this a security _vulnerability_ but I do think we should harden our httpd.conf to prevent this from being a problem by default.
Yes, this seems reasonable.
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Bumping this; it's still valid in current Fedora. I don't want to file tracking bugs for this since it isn't really a security issue, but perhaps the next httpd is updated in Fedora we could include this fix?
This was in f15: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=httpd.git;a=commitdiff;h=3383664c3dfec710b37695603382ded98af8c99d