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MS10-065 Microsoft IIS 5 NTFS Stream Authentication Bypass

Disclosed
Jul 2, 2010
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module bypasses basic authentication for Internet Information Services (IIS).
By appending the NTFS stream name to the directory name in a request, it is
possible to bypass authentication.

Authors

Soroush Dalili
sinn3r [email protected]

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


msf > use auxiliary/admin/http/iis_auth_bypass
msf auxiliary(iis_auth_bypass) > show actions
...actions...
msf auxiliary(iis_auth_bypass) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(iis_auth_bypass) > show options
...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(iis_auth_bypass) > run

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