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V-268325CAT II — Medium severitySV-268325r1025163_rule

The Request Smuggling filter must be enabled.

Rule version IIST-SV-000220 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-26

Discussion

Security scans show Request Smuggling vulnerability on IIS server.

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the way that HTTP proxies (front-end) and web servers (back-end) that do not strictly adhere to RFC standards handle sequences of HTTP requests received from multiple sources. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to a targeted IIS Server, perform HTTP request smuggling attack and modify responses or retrieve information from another user's HTTP session.

Check

Open Registry Editor. Navigate to "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP\Parameters" Verify "DisableRequestSmuggling” is set to "1".

If REG_DWORD DisableRequestSmuggling is not set to 1, this is a finding.

Fix

Navigate to "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP\Parameters". Create REG_DWORD "DisableRequestSmuggling” and set it to "1".

Note: This can be performed multiple ways; this is an example.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268325
Group title
SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000015
Rule ID
SV-268325r1025163_rule
Check ID
C-72355r1025161_chk
Fix ID
F-72256r1025162_fix