[NTSEC] ! [ADVISORY] Major Security Hole in MS ASP (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:39:01 -0600
From: Mark Joseph Edwards <mark at ntshop.net>
To: "'bugtraq at netspace.org'" <bugtraq at netspace.org>
Cc: "'ntbugtraq at rc.on.ca'" <ntbugtraq at rc.on.ca>,
    "'ntsecurity at iss.net'" <ntsecurity at iss.net>
Subject: [NTSEC] ! [ADVISORY] Major Security Hole in MS ASP


		MICROSOFT IIS AND ACTIVE SERVER ADVISORY
		 Security Hole in ASP Discovered in Microsoft ASP
				February 20, 1997

DESCRIPTION
A serious security hole was found in Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) by Juan T. Llibre <j.llibre at codetel.net.do>. This hole allows Web clients to download unprocessed ASP files potentially exposing user ids and passwords. ASP files are the common file type used by Microsoft's IIS and Active Server to perform server-side processing.

HOW IT WORKS
To download an unprocessed ASP file, simply append a period to the asp URL. For example: http://www.domain1.com/default.asp becomes http://www.domain1.com/default.asp. With the period appendage, Internet Information Server (IIS) will send the unprocessed ASP file to the Web client, wherein the source to the file can be examined at will. If the source includes any security parameter designed to allow access to other system processes, such as an SQL  database, they will be revealed.

DEFENSE
There are two known ways to stop this behavior: 

1.Turn read permissions off of the ASP directory in the Internet Service Manager. This may not be a practical solution since many sites mix ASP and HTML files. If your site mixes these files together in the same directories, you may want to segregate them immediately. Now and in the future, treat your ASP files like any other Web based executable, and keep them in separate directories wherein permissions can be adjusted accordingly.

2.Download this filter written by Christoph Wille Christoph.Wille at unileoben.ac.at which can be located at http://www.ntshop.net/security/tools/sechole.zip or from http://www.genusa.com/asp/patch/sechole.zip

END OF ADVISORY