Sharepoint privilege escalation - admin.dll+author.dll

[kuffya () gmail com]

Hi list, 

I'm testing a sharepoint portal running on IIS 6.0.The exact version (banner based) is:
MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 6.0.2

I've identified the folllowing dlls, which are viewable (and perhaps modifiable, if the list helps) by non-admin 
accounts:
/_vti_bin/_vti_adm/admin.dll
/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll
/_vti_bin/shtml.dll

When viewed, the first two return the following screen: 

method=

status=

    * status=262147
    * osstatus=0
    * msg=No "CONTENT_TYPE" in CGI environment.
    * osmsg= 

whilst the shtml.dll returns a 'sharepoint error' message. 

I did some serious googling and attempted various POST attacks that reportedly 
(http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/9910-exploits/webfolders.txt)
used to work (priv. escalation) back in the day. but without success. I've also seen a BlackHat presentation from 2003 
covering the same methods of attack (carefully crafted POSTing). These methods refer to Frontpage extensions, but I 
assume that the same principles are in use in sharepoint. 

I wonder if anyone out there has any interesting ideas or ways to achieve privilege escalation in such a scenario, or 
do anything othewise 'bad'. I'm not too optimistic, as this being a standard microsoft application must have been 
extensively tested before release and old bugs must have been fixed. Or not?

On another note, does one need to keep this files accessible/viewable at all?

Many thanks
Stelios
 

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