Security vulnerabilities

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Opened by Devansh811 - 18.01.2024
Last edited by cbay - 18.01.2024

Hello support teams,

I hope this email finds you well. I am Devansh.I am a security researcher and I am writing to bring to your attention a security vulnerability that I have discovered on your website.

Report of bug is as follows:

Vulnerability name: .git file exposed

Website : https://security.alwaysdata.com/.git/config

Overview of the Vulnerability

The danger occurs when the application leaves the “. git” directory, which is in the system root, exposed. By carelessness, an application that uses Git for versioning can expose the “. git” directory.

Steps to Reproduce

1. open this website in the browser https://cdn.anscommerce.com/.git/config

2. you can see the git file is open

3 .by the dotgit extension you can download the git file

It can be exploited more but may cause harm to your website

Impact of the vulnerability

git folder is required to log every commit history and every other information required for your remote repository, version control, commits etc. These things are saved in different folders which have different meanings. Once the folder is created, open it and see the

References :

https://medium.com/stolabs/git-exposed-how-to-identify-and-exploit-62df3c165c37

https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/git-detected/

Please consider this as an urgent matter and prioritize the resolution of this vulnerability . if you require any additional information or assistance. Do let me know

Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Regards
Devansh