Hardening NGINX Security

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • My security team found that my application under path traversal. My current website URL is https://website.com and I can download the server passwd file if i use https://website.com/?../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • nginx

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