Re: /instmsg/alias/annoying_web_logs ;)

[zeno <bugtraq () cgisecurity net>]

> I get billions of these things too, its part of some MSN groups/chat 
> thing, essentially it takes requests the "alias" of the email address 
> (dave () immunitysec com => /instmsg/alias/dave). Might be fun to send back 

These things are damn annoying. I get probably 5 of these a day and 1 person keeps checking me every
few hours. 


> some looooong responses ;) My favorites are all the ones that originate 
> from microsoft "tide" addresses... They send me some funny referrers from 
> their intranet servers once in a while too.

Ha. 


> ---
> "Immunity also gets a lot of requests for /instmsg/alias/dave, which 
> doesn't exist. I'm curious what web client plugin causes this behavior. 
> And, I've noticed FrontPage makes PROPFIND, /_vti_bin/shtml.dll, and 
> other FrontPage-style requests. Somewhere here I smell an exploitable 
> client-side vulnerability."
> ---


I'm curious do we know this is MSN messanger? Anybody else know if AIM or another client sends
these requests?

- zeno