Directory Transversal?

2ndmanup · Trooper Joined: Apr 01, 2004 Posts: 17 Location: USA

I was surfing on a Home Depot site today when NIS 2004 came up and blocked what it considered an intrusion attempt. The message said "attempted Intrusion, URL_Directory_Transversal from your machine against "www.homedepot.com" detected and blocked". I think that Home Depot has enough business with selling home improvement than to moonlight with breaking into computers. What gives? What does directory transversal mean?

archimedes · Lieutenant Joined: May 21, 2004 Posts: 155 Location: USA

http://www.stargeek.com/item/65600.html
Maybe? Question

conrad · Sergeant Joined: Dec 07, 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Thailand

Hi 2ndmanup

I get similar alerts - checked Symantec and all I could find was this:

URL_Directory_Transversal

At first site, it doesn't seem to apply to the problem, but the article mentions URL_Directory_Transversal about halfway down, which may provide some clues. I haven't read it properly yet, as it doesn't seem to be a real threat (the attacking IP address is 127.0.0.1, which is the internal IP address of my PC - same for everyone). It seems to be something to do with pages passing referrer information.

cheers

conrad


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