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Re: Microsoft - Personal Web Server Extended UNICODE Directory Traversal Vulnerability
From: Microsoft Security Response Center <secure () MICROSOFT COM>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:17:37 -0800
Hi All - Personal Web Server is, of course, not intended to host web sites on the Internet. It's only intended to be used in protected environments such as home networks and the like. If you're hosting an Internet site, IIS is the appropriate product to use. Regards, Scott Culp Security Program Manager Microsoft Security Response Center -----Original Message----- From: Dinos Pastos [mailto:dinopio () LINUX COM CY] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 2:16 AM To: BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM Subject: Microsoft - Personal Web Server Extended UNICODE Directory Traversal Vulnerability Hi all... Just wanted to point out that while testing my Default installation of Windows 98 running Microsoft Personal Web Server that came with the Windows98 SE CD I discovered that the famous IIS 4/5 Unicode Directory Traversal Vulnerability applies also to this Server just as bad as in IIS. The exploit method is the same : http://PWS-server/scripts/..%c1%9c../windows/notepad.exe I wont go in to detail on how to exploit a Windows machine... (Sorry script kiddies)... Patches: Dunno. Quickfixes: Use Linux. Dinos Pastos - dinopio () linux com cy Security Advisor
Current thread:
- Microsoft - Personal Web Server Extended UNICODE Directory Traversal Vulnerability Dinos Pastos (Mar 19)
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- Re: Microsoft - Personal Web Server Extended UNICODE Directory Traversal Vulnerability Microsoft Security Response Center (Mar 20)
- Re: Microsoft - Personal Web Server Extended UNICODE Directory Traversal Vulnerability Dinos Pastos (Mar 20)
- Re: Microsoft - Personal Web Server Extended UNICODE Directory Traversal Vulnerability David F. Skoll (Mar 20)
- Re: Microsoft - Personal Web Server Extended UNICODE Directory Traversal Vulnerability Michael Brennen (Mar 21)
- Re: Microsoft - Personal Web Server Extended UNICODE Directory Traversal Vulnerability Robert Bihlmeyer (Mar 21)