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Microsoft IIS shortname vulnerability scanner

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
Mar 19, 2019

Description

The vulnerability is caused by a tilde character "~" in a GET or OPTIONS request, which
could allow remote attackers to disclose 8.3 filenames (short names). In 2010, Soroush Dalili
and Ali Abbasnejad discovered the original bug (GET request). This was publicly disclosed in
2012. In 2014, Soroush Dalili discovered that newer IIS installations are vulnerable with OPTIONS.

Authors

Soroush Dalili
Ali Abbasnejad
MinatoTW [email protected]
egre55 [email protected]

References

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/scanner/http/iis_shortname_scanner
    msf auxiliary(iis_shortname_scanner) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(iis_shortname_scanner) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(iis_shortname_scanner) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(iis_shortname_scanner) > run
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