Title

Non-ASCII characters in URLs must be prohibited by any IIS 8.5 website. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

By setting limits on web requests, it ensures availability of web services and mitigates the risk of buffer overflow type attacks. The allow high-bit characters Request Filter enables rejection of requests containing non-ASCII characters.

Check Content

Follow the procedures below for each site hosted on the IIS 8.5 web server: Open the IIS 8.5 Manager. Click on the site name. Double-click the "Request Filtering" icon. Click “Edit Feature Settings” in the "Actions" pane. If the "Allow high-bit characters" check box is checked, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Follow the procedures below for each site hosted on the IIS 8.5 web server: Open the IIS 8.5 Manager. Click the site name under review. Double-click the "Request Filtering" icon. Click “Edit Feature Settings” in the "Actions" pane. Uncheck the "Allow high-bit characters" check box.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-214467r879650_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-214467

Group Title: SRG-APP-000246-WSR-000149

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