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MS09-020 IIS6 WebDAV Unicode Authentication Bypass

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MS09-020 IIS6 WebDAV Unicode Authentication Bypass

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module attempts to to bypass authentication using the WebDAV IIS6 Unicode vulnerability discovered by Kingcope. The vulnerability appears to be exploitable where WebDAV is enabled on the IIS6 server, and any protected folder requires either Basic, Digest or NTLM authentication.

Author(s)

  • et <et@metasploit.com>
  • aushack <patrick@osisecurity.com.au>

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/scanner/http/ms09_020_webdav_unicode_bypass
msf auxiliary(ms09_020_webdav_unicode_bypass) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(ms09_020_webdav_unicode_bypass) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(ms09_020_webdav_unicode_bypass) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(ms09_020_webdav_unicode_bypass) > run

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