Plugin ID | 111 |
Plugin name | Microsoft Frontpage detection |
Plugin filename | Microsoft Frontpage detection.plugin |
Plugin filesize | 3647 bytes |
Plugin family | CGI |
Plugin created name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin created email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin created web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin created company | computec.ch |
Plugin created date | 2004/08/31 |
Plugin updated name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin updated email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin updated web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin updated company | computec.ch |
Plugin updated date | 2004/11/14 |
Plugin version | 2.0 |
Plugin changelog | Corrected the plugin structure and added the accuracy values in 1.1. Improved the pattern matching and introduced the plugin changelog in 2.0 |
Plugin protocol | tcp |
Plugin port | 80 |
Plugin procedure detection | open|sleep|send POST /_vti_bin/shtml.dll/_vti_rpc HTTP/1.0\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\nDate: Mon, 23 Mar 2003 01:23:42 GMT\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\nX-Vermeer-Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n\nmethod=open+service%3a3%2e0%2e2%2e1105&service%5fname=%2f\n|sleep|close|pattern_exists HTTP/#.# ### *<li>msg=The user* |
Plugin detection accuracy | 99 |
Plugin comment | Check is copied from the Nessus plugin (see Nessus ID listed in the sources). |
Bug vulnerability class | Configuration |
Bug description | The remote web server appears to be running with the Frontpage extensions. Frontpage allows remote web developers and administrators to modify web content from a remote location. While this is a fairly typical scenario on an internal Local Area Network, the Frontpage extensions should not be available to anonymous users via the Internet (or any other untrusted 3rd party network). You should double check the configuration since a lot of security problems have been found with FrontPage when the configuration file is not well set up. |
Bug solution | Install the patches for the affected version or upgrade to the latest software version. The web server should be deactivated or de-installed if not necessary. To make it harder to find the server the daemon could be configured to listen at another port (e.g. 8081). Try to prevent unwanted connection attempts by filtering traffic with firewalling. Alternation of the application banner can confuse an attacker and let him determine the wrong software. |
Bug fixing time | Approx. 2 hours |
Bug exploit availability | Yes |
Bug remote | Yes |
Bug local | Yes |
Bug severity | Medium |
Bug popularity | 7 |
Bug simplicity | 7 |
Bug impact | 7 |
Bug risk | 7 |
Bug Nessus risk | High |
Bug check tools | Nessus is able to do the same check very accurate. See the Nessus plugin ID for more details. Furthermore Symantec NetRecon 3.5 and 3.6 may be able to do a similar check. |
Source CVE | CAN-2000-0114 |
Source Nessus ID | 10077 |
Source Literature | Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz, February 25, 2003, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, ISBN 0072227427 |
Source Misc. | http://www.computec.ch |