Title: NT IIS Double Byte Code Page Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
This vulnerability could allow a web site viewer to obtain the source code for .asp and similar files if the server's default language (Input Locale) is set to Chinese, Japanese or Korean. How this works is as follows:
IIS checks the extension of the requested file to see if it needs to do any processing before delivering the information. If the requested extension is not on it's list, it then makes any language-based calculations, and delivers the file. If a single byte is appended to the end of the URL when IIS to set to use one of the double-byte language packs (Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) the language module will strip it as invalid, then look for the file. Since the new URL now points to a valid filename, and IIS has already determined that this transaction requires no processing, the file is simply delivered as is, exposing the source code.
Affected Products:
- Cisco Building Broadband Service Manager 5.0.0
- Cisco Call Manager 1.0.0
- Cisco Call Manager 2.0.0
- Cisco Call Manager 3.0.0
- Cisco ICS 7750 0.0.0
- Cisco IP/VC 3540 Video Rate Matching Module 0.0.0
- Cisco Unity Server 2.0.0
- Cisco Unity Server 2.2.0
- Cisco Unity Server 2.3.0
- Cisco Unity Server 2.4.0
- Cisco uOne 1.0.0
- Cisco uOne 2.0.0
- Cisco uOne 3.0.0
- Cisco uOne 4.0.0
- Microsoft BackOffice 4.0.0
- Microsoft BackOffice 4.5.0
- Microsoft IIS 3.0.0
- Microsoft IIS 4.0.0
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack
References:
- Microsoft: Frequently Asked Questions: Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS99-022)
- Microsoft: Q233335 - Page Contents Visible When Certain Characters are at End of URL
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