STIGUI
V-218759CAT II — Medium severitySV-218759r961158_rule

Directory Browsing on the IIS 10.0 website must be disabled.

Rule version IIST-SI-000231 · STIG v2 · 2026-08-26

Discussion

Directory browsing allows the contents of a directory to be displayed upon request from a web client. If directory browsing is enabled for a directory in IIS, users could receive a web page listing the contents of the directory. If directory browsing is enabled the risk of inadvertently disclosing sensitive content is increased.

Check

Follow the procedures below for each site hosted on the IIS 10.0 web server:

Click the Site.

Double-click the "Directory Browsing" icon.

If "Directory Browsing" is not installed, this is Not Applicable.

Under the "Actions" pane, verify "Directory Browsing" is "Disabled".

If "Directory Browsing" is not "Disabled", this is a finding.

Fix

Follow the procedures below for each site hosted on the IIS 10.0 web server:

Open the IIS 10.0 Manager.

Click the Site.

Double-click the "Directory Browsing" icon.

Under the "Actions" pane, click "Disabled".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-218759
Group title
SRG-APP-000251-WSR-000157
Rule ID
SV-218759r961158_rule
Check ID
C-20232r311175_chk
Fix ID
F-20230r311176_fix