IIS Vulnerability Documented by Microsoft - Includes Workarounds
SANS reports
"Microsoft has just put out an advisory for a privilege escalation
vulnerability in Windows that affects IIS and potential SQL server
(951306). Basically, authenticated users can use this vulnerability to
become LocalSystem. This is probably more of a problem for shared
hosting environments were clients could upload malicious code to the
webserver and run the exploit to gain additional rights. SQL is less of
a problem because permissions have to be explicitly given to allow a
SQL user to run code.
The advisory contains workarounds for IIS 6 and 7 that is claimed to blunt this vulnerability. The only negative impact of those workarounds is to add some extra work when adding users but does block the vector of attack."
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