Re: Microsoft Peer Web Services vulnerability

From: Scott Culp (scottcuat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 18 1999 - 12:51:40 PDT

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    Colette,
    
    Microsoft Peer Web Services is IIS 4.0.  It's affected by the vulnerability,
    and covered by the patch.  Cheers,
    
    Scott
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Colette.Chamberlandat_private
    [mailto:Colette.Chamberlandat_private]
    Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 11:36 AM
    To: BUGTRAQat_private
    Subject: Microsoft Peer Web Services vulnerability
    
    
    ADVISORY
    6/17/1999
    
    This advisory is for those that run "Microsoft Peer Web Services"  in
    addition to the
    advisory for Microsoft's IIS 4. It also limits Web-based administration to
    the loopback address
    (127.0.0.1) by default.  It also has the  ism.dll   in the /scripts/iisadmin
    directory,
     which allows users / attackers to access the ISAPI application used for
    remote
    web-based administration from an non-loopback IP address.
    
    NOTE: An attacker can simply do a search on Alta Vista for  "Microsoft Peer
    Web Services".
    They then get a complete list of  NT Workstations  running this service. All
    they need to do,
    is append the following to the End of the url:
    
     /scripts/iisadmin/ism.dll?http/dir.
    
    The  user will then be prompted for a UserID and password and if successful
    authentication takes place they are given access to sensitive server
    information. It provides an attacker with a means to brute
    force / guess the Administrators password and if successful an enormous
    amount of reconnaissance work can be achieved through the application's use.
    
    
    Colette Chamberland
    http://www.mc2.nu
    



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