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Microsoft Windows NAT Helper Denial of Service

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Microsoft Windows NAT Helper Denial of Service

Disclosed
10/26/2006
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a denial of service vulnerability within the Internet Connection Sharing service in Windows XP.

Author(s)

  • MC <mc@metasploit.com>

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use auxiliary/dos/windows/nat/nat_helper
msf auxiliary(nat_helper) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(nat_helper) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(nat_helper) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(nat_helper) > run

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