-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- __________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Internet Information Server Vulnerability April 18, 1997 17:00 GMT Number H-48 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: A vulnerability in Microsoft IIS allows an outside user to view server-side scripts. PLATFORM: Windows NT servers running Internet Information Server 2.0 or 3.0. DAMAGE: An outside user can obtain access to sensitive Web server scripts. SOLUTION: Apply the fix or patch provided below. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY If sensitive information such as passwords are present in a ASSESSMENT: server-side script, this vulnerability can potentially lead to compromised of a Web server. ______________________________________________________________________________ A vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) for Windows NT 4.0 allows server scripts to be view by the client side. Server-side scripts (also called script-mapped files) are programs that produce HTML code to be viewed on the client side. It is not intended that the scripts themselves be seen on the client side. Commonly, server scripts contain sensitive information, such as passwords for accessing databases. Or, seeing the content of a script might allow an attacker to discover a way to attack the server. To view a server script, the client user needs to simply append one or more dots (.) to the end of the URL. For example, the URL http://foo.bar.org/myscript.asp. will return the contents of the script myscript.asp, not the results of executing the script. All server-side scripts requested from a virtual directory that have both read and execute permissions are vulnerable. This includes .asp, .htx, .idc, .pl, and other types of files. The vulnerability can be removed by disabling "read" permissions on the virtual directory where such scripts reside. Or, the following patch can be downloaded from Microsoft: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/ usa/nt40/hotfixes-postsp2/iis-fix Microsoft has made information on this vulnerability available on their Web site at: http://www.microsoft.com/iis/iisnews/hotnews/security.htm _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Microsoft and Juan T. 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