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Subject: Vunerabilities in Microsoft's IIS 2.0
From: oolid @ acqic . org (Joseph L. Moll)
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 16:22:37 -0500
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

Hello all:

We have noticed a little problem with IIS 2.0 and were wondering if the
problem also exists in IIS 3.0.

It seems that anyone can browse the any files in the cgi-bin directory on
the server.  For example, browse this on your IIS web host:  

http://your.domain.here/cgi-bin/my_cgi.ini

The only catch is that you have to know the name of the file.  Good ole
security by obscurity?

IIS 2.0 in conjunction with M$ Internet Exploder passes the end users domain
and username to the IIS for access.  Get's logged in the log file as
DOMAIN\USERNAME.

Anyone else observed this slight problem?


Regards,
---
Joseph L. (Joe) Moll -- Network and Communications Engineering
mailto:jmoll @
 acquion .
 com  http://www.acquion.com
ACQUION, Inc.  Greenville, SC  USA -- Specialists in Electronic Commerce
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