Re: directory traversal and cmd.exe

Jonathan Younie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robin,

I'm pretty sure the vulnerability was there by default in IIS 4 and 5 
and required a patch to fix. IIS 6 had Parent Paths turned off in 
default installation so the fix was built in.

Jonathan Younie
CEH, MCTS, MCSE

On 5/10/2011 6:29 PM, Robin Wood wrote:
> Can anyone tell me which version of IIS fixed this style of vulnerability?
>
> http://server.com/scripts/..%5c../Windows/System32/cmd.exe?/c+dir+c:\
>
> A few people have been talking about it recently but I've never come
> across it in tests despite hitting some quite old servers. From what I
> can find reading round it was IIS 4 and 5 but I'm guessing would have
> been patched well before 6 came out.
>
> Robin
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