Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0988 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server and Windows NT
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
The default configuration of the DNS Server service on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000, and the Microsoft DNS Server service on Windows NT 4.0, allows recursive queries and provides additional delegation information to arbitrary IP addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via DNS queries with spoofed source IP addresses. This vulnerability affects all versions of Windows 2000 -and- Windows Server 2003.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 3 |
Metasploit
| description | This module can be used to discover DNS servers which expose recursive name lookups which can be used in an amplification attack against a third party. |
| id | MSF:AUXILIARY/SCANNER/DNS/DNS_AMP |
| last seen | 2019-12-19 |
| modified | 2017-08-27 |
| published | 2014-01-29 |
| references | |
| reporter | Rapid7 |
| source | https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master//modules/auxiliary/scanner/dns/dns_amp.rb |
| title | DNS Amplification Scanner |