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IIS Remote Command Execution

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains if arbitrary commands can be executed

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

Arbitary commands can be executed on the remote web server

Description :

When IIS receives a user request to run a script, it renders
the request in a decoded canonical form, then performs
security checks on the decoded request. A vulnerability
results because a second, superfluous decoding pass is
performed after the initial security checks are completed.
Thus, a specially crafted request could permit a possible hacker to
execute arbitrary commands on the IIS Server.

Solution:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-026.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

High / CVSS Base Score : 7
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:P/I:P/A:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 2708, 3193

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2001 Matt Moore / H D Moore

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