Re: Has anyone seen this?

Paul Schmehl <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:18:29 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.intrusions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--On Thursday, August 25, 2005 09:43:03 -0400 Justin S <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>
> I have seen that before.  I believe there was an old vulnerability in
> IIS where you could modify your URL to have a bunch of ../ in it and
> it would eventually take you back to the C drvie so you could then
> move forward and access the winnt directory.  You would have to have
> an old and unpatched version of IIS to be vulnerable to it though.
>
Yes, but this didn't use directory traversal.  That's what made it so odd 
and caught my attention.

Paul Schmehl ([email protected])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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