Posted on July 24, 2013 at 11:03 am

TRACE and TRACK are HTTP request methods used for debugging purposes. Having these request methods enabled in your web server may lead to security risk that may compromise the security of your website and an attacker may manipulate these HTTP request methods to steal sensitive data of users.

Disable Trace and Track with mod_rewrite

Add these lines of code in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Returns a 403 Forbidden error response to the attacker.

Disable Trace with Apache

Edit this Apache configuration file:

/etc/apache2/conf.d/security

Disable TRACE:

TraceEnable Off

Reload Apache:

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Updated on October 22, 2013 at 4:01 pm

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