bugtraq - RE: EEYE: Internet Explorer Object Data Remote Execution Vulnerability

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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:03:29 -0700
From: "Drew Copley" <dcopley@...e.com>
To: "'Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)'" <fabio@...trosanti.it>,
	"'BUGTRAQ'" <BUGTRAQ@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: EEYE: Internet Explorer Object Data Remote Execution Vulnerability


 
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If you wish, you can deny any traffic using:

Content-Type: application/hta

The fact is even IIS does not have that content type built in, and it does not need it. Further, the need for anyone to legitimately download a HTML Application would be extremely rare. (This is not saying HTML Applications are useless.)

Object tags can have unsafe extensions in the data, for instance, base-64 encoded data is rather popular. (For whatever reason Frontpage automatically puts base-64 encoded data in some activex.)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) [mailto:fabio@...trosanti.it] 
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 2:45 AM
> To: BUGTRAQ
> Subject: Re: EEYE: Internet Explorer Object Data Remote 
> Execution Vulnerability
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:27:33AM +0300, Nerijus Krukauskas wrote:
> >   In case anyone needs a SNORT rule to catch attempts to 
> exploit this
> > vulnerability:
> > 
> > #-----
> > alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"Internet
> > Explorer Object Data Remote Execution Vulnerability"; \
> >         content:"F935DC22-1CF0-11D0-ADB9-00C04FD58A0B"; \
> >         nocase; flow:from_server, established; \
> >         reference:cve,CAN-2003-0532; \
> >         classtype:web-application-activity; rev:1;)
> > #-----
> 
> This rules catch the response with the exploit's payload from 
> the server that may change depending on the exploits so 
> matching the CLSID of WSH does not detect the "vulnerability" 
> beeing exploited but this specific exploits.
> 
> Altought there are many way of exploiting this vuln without 
> using the Window Scripting Host, it's possible to use it in 
> many way like:
> 
> - VBScript
> 
>    CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
> 
> - JavaScript  
> 
>   new ActiveXObject("WScript.shell"); 
> 
> or like in the demostration with the <object> tag .
> 
> The only way to detect it is to look at the data sent by the 
> client beeing exploited ( which can probably bypassed with 
> fancy mhtml base64 encoded e-mail or with an e-mail with a 
> link to a site available in https )
> 
> For an effective signature we need a regexp that will catch 
> everything that start with <object, reach the field data= and 
> look at the end of the string inside 
> "" matching everything that's NOT an unsafe extension ( .exe, 
> .pif, .cab, etc, etc ) .
> 
> In perl should be something like:
> 
> /date="[^"]+\.(?!exe|bat|pif|cab|scr|etc|etc|antani)([^"])+?"/
>    ( tnx Md ) 
> 
> Regards
> 
> --
> 
> Fabio Pietrosanti ( naif )
> E-mail: fabio@...trosanti.it - naif@...tpj.org - 
> naif@...urezza.org PGP Key available on my homepage: 
http://fabio.pietrosanti.it/
- --
Security is a state of being, not a state of budget. rfp 
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