Re: IIS : access to cmd.exe and multiple commands on one line

From: Alex Butcher (pentest) (pentestat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 13:10:31 PDT

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    On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Daniel Polombo wrote:
    
    > Hello,
    >
    >    as you all know, it's possible to exploit a number of IIS bugs to gain
    > access to \winnt\system32\cmd.exe and execute arbitrary commands on the
    > server. I've been trying to convince it to execute several commands on one
    > line (as one would separate commands with a ';' under any decent shell), with
    > limited success : on a number of NT/2k boxes, the syntax :
    >
    >     command1 & command2  (eg, cd .. & dir)
    >
    > works fine. On some other boxes, though, it only returns 'The parameter is
    > incorrect'.
    >
    > It is unclear to me whether this problem happens only because of the way the
    > request is made (http://path/to/cmd.exe?/c+command1&command2), or if there are
    > really different versions of cmd.exe.
    
    A suggestion: have you tried copying cmd.exe to some other filename (e.g.
    foo.exe) and then use *that* to execute the multiple command line? Just
    thinking that if redirection doesn't work without using a copy of cmd.exe,
    maybe some other aspects don't either.
    
    > Regards,
    >    Daniel
    
    Best Regards,
    Alex (no NT box to test on, for now :)
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