Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-0450 - Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft products

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
microsoft
nessus
exploit available
NVD
Published: 1999-01-26
Updated: 2020-11-23

Summary

In IIS, an attacker could determine a real path using a request for a non-existent URL that would be interpreted by Perl (perl.exe).

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Microsoft
4

Exploit-Db

descriptionMicrosoft IIS 5.0 IISAPI Extension Enumerate Root Web Server Directory Vulnerability. CVE-1999-0450. Remote exploit for windows platform
idEDB-ID:19152
last seen2016-02-02
modified1999-01-26
published1999-01-26
reporterMnemonix
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/19152/
titleMicrosoft IIS 5.0 IISAPI Extension Enumerate Root Web Server Directory Vulnerability

Nessus

NASL familyWeb Servers
NASL idIIS_PERL_PROBLEM.NASL
descriptionIt was possible to obtain the physical location of a virtual web directory of this host by issuing a request for a non-existent file with an IISAPI-registered extension. An attacker may use this flaw to gain more information about the remote host, and hence make more focused attacks.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id10120
published1999-06-22
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 1999-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/10120
titleMicrosoft IIS perl.exe HTTP Path Disclosure
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

# See:
# Date:  29 Dec 2001 18:53:39 -0000
# From: "antoan miroslavov" <[email protected]>
# To: [email protected]
# Subject: Active Perl path reveal
#


include("compat.inc");

if(description)
{
 script_id(10120);
 script_version ("1.39");

 script_cve_id("CVE-1999-0450");
 script_bugtraq_id(194);

 script_name(english:"Microsoft IIS perl.exe HTTP Path Disclosure");
 
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server is affected by an information disclosure 
vulnerability." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It was possible to obtain the physical location of a virtual web
directory of this host by issuing a request for a non-existent file
with an IISAPI-registered extension.

An attacker may use this flaw to gain more information about the remote
host, and hence make more focused attacks." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Configure the web server to check for the existence of a file before
it returns an error message." );
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
 script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "1999/06/22");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "1999/01/22");
 script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/13 15:08:46");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:microsoft:iis");
 script_end_attributes();
 
 summary["english"] = "Attempts to find the location of the remote web root";
 script_summary(english:summary["english"]);
 
 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
 
 
 script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 1999-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
 family["english"] = "Web Servers";
 script_family(english:family["english"]);
 script_dependencie("find_service1.nasl", "httpver.nasl", "http_version.nasl", "www_fingerprinting_hmap.nasl");
 script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");

port = get_http_port(default:80);

banner = get_http_banner(port:port);
if ( "Microsoft-IIS" >!< banner ) exit(0);

res = http_send_recv3(method:"GET", item:"/scripts/no-such-file.pl", port:port);
if (isnull(res)) exit(1, "The web server on port "+port+" failed to respond.");

res[2] = tolower(res[2]);
if("perl script" >< res[2]) security_warning(port:port);

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