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Microsoft IIS ISAPI w3who.dll Query String Overflow

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Disclosed
Dec 6, 2004
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in the w3who.dll ISAPI
application. This vulnerability was discovered Nicolas
Gregoire and this code has been successfully tested against
Windows 2000 and Windows XP (SP2). When exploiting Windows
XP, the payload must call RevertToSelf before it will be
able to spawn a command shell.

Author

hdm [email protected]

Platform

Windows

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 exploit/windows/isapi/w3who_query
    msf exploit(w3who_query) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(w3who_query) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(w3who_query) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(w3who_query) > exploit
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