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Re: Microsoft win2003server phone home

From: "Gaurav Kumar" <gaurav () e2-labs com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 05:08:27 +0530
 1. Is  this behavior normal for a windows server installation ?   
i think that this behavour is normal bcoz as u analyse that session u will get to know that server is trying to update 
something

 2.  Could this behavior be considered as a violation of privacy ?
this surely a case of violation of privacy as it is not mentioned in agreement. go ahead, sue micro$oft.

 3.  Could it be considered as a security risk to let a newly installed server, 
 request information from an arbitrary server that I have no control over ?
yes its a security risk bcoz it is not even using pki to establish identity of the server.


Gaurav Kumar

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gyrniff" <b240503 () gyrniff dk>
To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft win2003server phone home



After acquiring and installing a copy of 'Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition 
180-Day Evaluation' I walked through the 'role wizard',  used the 'custom 
role config' and selected everything ;-) 
After reboot the server made two POST request to microsoft controlled 
webserveres without any notification. One request to activex.micrisoft.com 
and one to codecs.microsoft.com, the data posted to the two severs was the 
same. (See the request and responds below.)

I can find no information in the license agreement about giving away 
'information' behind my back.

My question: 
1. Is  this behavior normal for a windows server installation ?   
2.  Could this behavior be considered as a violation of privacy ?
3.  Could it be considered as a security risk to let a newly installed server, 
request information from an arbitrary server that I have no control over ?

****

Posted data to activex.microsoft.com:
POST /objects/ocget.dll HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/x-cabinet-win32-x86, application/x-pe-win32-x86, 
application/octet-stream, application/x-setupscript, */*
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Language: da
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 
1.1.4322)
Host: activex.microsoft.com
Content-Length: 44
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache

CLSID={FC7D9E02-3F9E-11D3-93C0-00C04F72DAF7}

The reply:
HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 09:48:38 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 102

<html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>The system cannot find the file 
specified. </body></html>

***

Postede data to codecs.microsoft.com
POST /isapi/ocget.dll HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/x-cabinet-win32-x86, application/x-pe-win32-x86, 
application/octet-stream, application/x-setupscript, */*
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Language: da
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 
1.1.4322)
Host: codecs.microsoft.com
Content-Length: 44
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache

CLSID={FC7D9E02-3F9E-11D3-93C0-00C04F72DAF7}

And the reply:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Connection: close
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 09:47:54 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
P3P: policyref="http://www.microsoft.com/w3c/p3p.xml"; CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM 
CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE 
PUR UNI"
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/Gyrniff

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