Microsoft IIS HTTP Internal IP Disclosure - Metasploit

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Module Overview

Name: Microsoft IIS HTTP Internal IP Disclosure
Module: auxiliary/scanner/http/iis_internal_ip
Source code: modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/iis_internal_ip.rb
Disclosure date: -
Last modification time: 2022-01-23 15:28:32 +0000
Supported architecture(s): -
Supported platform(s): -
Target service / protocol: http, https
Target network port(s): 80, 443, 3000, 8000, 8008, 8080, 8443, 8880, 8888
List of CVEs: CVE-2000-0649, CVE-2002-0422

Collect any leaked internal IPs by requesting commonly redirected locations from IIS. CVE-2000-0649 references IIS 5.1 (win2k, XP) and older. However, in newer servers such as IIS 7+, this occurs when the alternateHostName is not set or misconfigured.

Module Ranking and Traits

Module Ranking:

• normal: The exploit is otherwise reliable, but depends on a specific version and can't (or doesn't) reliably autodetect. More information about ranking can be found here.

Basic Usage

This module is a scanner module, and is capable of testing against multiple hosts.

msf > use auxiliary/scanner/http/iis_internal_ip
msf auxiliary(iis_internal_ip) > show options
    ... show and set options ...
msf auxiliary(iis_internal_ip) > set RHOSTS ip-range
msf auxiliary(iis_internal_ip) > exploit

Other examples of setting the RHOSTS option:

Example 1:

msf auxiliary(iis_internal_ip) > set RHOSTS 192.168.1.3-192.168.1.200 

Example 2:

msf auxiliary(iis_internal_ip) > set RHOSTS 192.168.1.1/24

Example 3:

msf auxiliary(iis_internal_ip) > set RHOSTS file:/tmp/ip_list.txt

Required Options

• RHOSTS: The target host(s), range CIDR identifier, or hosts file with syntax 'file:<path>'

Knowledge Base

msf5 > use auxiliary/scanner/http/iis_internal_ip
msf5 auxiliary(scanner/http/iis_internal_ip) > set ssl true
[!] Changing the SSL option's value may require changing RPORT!
ssl => true
msf5 auxiliary(scanner/http/iis_internal_ip) > set rport 443
rport => 443
msf5 auxiliary(scanner/http/iis_internal_ip) > set rhosts 2.2.2.2
rhosts => 2.2.2.2
msf5 auxiliary(scanner/http/iis_internal_ip) > set verbose true
verbose => true
rmsf5 auxiliary(scanner/http/iis_internal_ip) > run

[*] 2.2.2.2:443     - Requesting GET / HTTP/1.0
[+] Location Header: https://10.1.1.20/home
[+] Result for 2.2.2.2 found Internal IP:  10.1.1.20
[*] 2.2.2.2:443     - Requesting GET /images HTTP/1.0
[*] 2.2.2.2:443     - Requesting GET /default.htm HTTP/1.0
[*] Scanned 1 of 1 hosts (100% complete)
[*] Auxiliary module execution completed

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Msfconsole Usage

Here is how the scanner/http/iis_internal_ip auxiliary module looks in the msfconsole:

msf6 > use auxiliary/scanner/http/iis_internal_ip

msf6 auxiliary(scanner/http/iis_internal_ip) > show info

       Name: Microsoft IIS HTTP Internal IP Disclosure
     Module: auxiliary/scanner/http/iis_internal_ip
    License: Metasploit Framework License (BSD)
       Rank: Normal

Provided by:
  Heather Pilkington

Check supported:
  No

Basic options:
  Name     Current Setting  Required  Description
  ----     ---------------  --------  -----------
  Proxies                   no        A proxy chain of format type:host:port[,type:host:port][...]
  RHOSTS                    yes       The target host(s), range CIDR identifier, or hosts file with syntax 'file:<path>'
  RPORT    80               yes       The target port (TCP)
  SSL      false            no        Negotiate SSL/TLS for outgoing connections
  THREADS  1                yes       The number of concurrent threads (max one per host)
  VHOST                     no        HTTP server virtual host

Description:
  Collect any leaked internal IPs by requesting commonly redirected 
  locations from IIS. CVE-2000-0649 references IIS 5.1 (win2k, XP) and 
  older. However, in newer servers such as IIS 7+, this occurs when 
  the alternateHostName is not set or misconfigured.

References:
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0649
  http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1499
  https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20096
  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/218180/internet-information-server-returns-ip-address-in-http-header-content
  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/967342/fix-the-internal-ip-address-of-an-iis-7-0-server-is-revealed-if-an-htt
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/iis-support-blog/iis-web-servers-running-in-windows-azure-may-reveal-their/ba-p/826500

Module Options

This is a complete list of options available in the scanner/http/iis_internal_ip auxiliary module:

msf6 auxiliary(scanner/http/iis_internal_ip) > show options

Module options (auxiliary/scanner/http/iis_internal_ip):

   Name     Current Setting  Required  Description
   ----     ---------------  --------  -----------
   Proxies                   no        A proxy chain of format type:host:port[,type:host:port][...]
   RHOSTS                    yes       The target host(s), range CIDR identifier, or hosts file with syntax 'file:<path>'
   RPORT    80               yes       The target port (TCP)
   SSL      false            no        Negotiate SSL/TLS for outgoing connections
   THREADS  1                yes       The number of concurrent threads (max one per host)
   VHOST                     no        HTTP server virtual host

Advanced Options

Here is a complete list of advanced options supported by the scanner/http/iis_internal_ip auxiliary module:

msf6 auxiliary(scanner/http/iis_internal_ip) > show advanced

Module advanced options (auxiliary/scanner/http/iis_internal_ip):

   Name                  Current Setting                                     Required  Description
   ----                  ---------------                                     --------  -----------
   DOMAIN                WORKSTATION                                         yes       The domain to use for Windows authentication
   DigestAuthIIS         true                                                no        Conform to IIS, should work for most servers. Only set to false for non-IIS servers
   FingerprintCheck      true                                                no        Conduct a pre-exploit fingerprint verification
   HttpClientTimeout                                                         no        HTTP connection and receive timeout
   HttpPassword                                                              no        The HTTP password to specify for authentication
   HttpRawHeaders                                                            no        Path to ERB-templatized raw headers to append to existing headers
   HttpTrace             false                                               no        Show the raw HTTP requests and responses
   HttpTraceColors       red/blu                                             no        HTTP request and response colors for HttpTrace (unset to disable)
   HttpTraceHeadersOnly  false                                               no        Show HTTP headers only in HttpTrace
   HttpUsername                                                              no        The HTTP username to specify for authentication
   SSLVersion            Auto                                                yes       Specify the version of SSL/TLS to be used (Auto, TLS and SSL23 are auto-negotiate) (Accepted: Auto, TLS, SSL23, SSL3, TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2)
   ShowProgress          true                                                yes       Display progress messages during a scan
   ShowProgressPercent   10                                                  yes       The interval in percent that progress should be shown
   UserAgent             Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)  no        The User-Agent header to use for all requests
   VERBOSE               false                                               no        Enable detailed status messages
   WORKSPACE                                                                 no        Specify the workspace for this module

Auxiliary Actions

This is a list of all auxiliary actions that the scanner/http/iis_internal_ip module can do:

msf6 auxiliary(scanner/http/iis_internal_ip) > show actions

Auxiliary actions:

   Name  Description
   ----  -----------

Evasion Options

Here is the full list of possible evasion options supported by the scanner/http/iis_internal_ip auxiliary module in order to evade defenses (e.g. Antivirus, EDR, Firewall, NIDS etc.):

msf6 auxiliary(scanner/http/iis_internal_ip) > show evasion

Module evasion options:

   Name                          Current Setting  Required  Description
   ----                          ---------------  --------  -----------
   HTTP::header_folding          false            no        Enable folding of HTTP headers
   HTTP::method_random_case      false            no        Use random casing for the HTTP method
   HTTP::method_random_invalid   false            no        Use a random invalid, HTTP method for request
   HTTP::method_random_valid     false            no        Use a random, but valid, HTTP method for request
   HTTP::pad_fake_headers        false            no        Insert random, fake headers into the HTTP request
   HTTP::pad_fake_headers_count  0                no        How many fake headers to insert into the HTTP request
   HTTP::pad_get_params          false            no        Insert random, fake query string variables into the request
   HTTP::pad_get_params_count    16               no        How many fake query string variables to insert into the request
   HTTP::pad_method_uri_count    1                no        How many whitespace characters to use between the method and uri
   HTTP::pad_method_uri_type     space            no        What type of whitespace to use between the method and uri (Accepted: space, tab, apache)
   HTTP::pad_post_params         false            no        Insert random, fake post variables into the request
   HTTP::pad_post_params_count   16               no        How many fake post variables to insert into the request
   HTTP::pad_uri_version_count   1                no        How many whitespace characters to use between the uri and version
   HTTP::pad_uri_version_type    space            no        What type of whitespace to use between the uri and version (Accepted: space, tab, apache)
   HTTP::uri_dir_fake_relative   false            no        Insert fake relative directories into the uri
   HTTP::uri_dir_self_reference  false            no        Insert self-referential directories into the uri
   HTTP::uri_encode_mode         hex-normal       no        Enable URI encoding (Accepted: none, hex-normal, hex-noslashes, hex-random, hex-all, u-normal, u-all, u-random)
   HTTP::uri_fake_end            false            no        Add a fake end of URI (eg: /%20HTTP/1.0/../../)
   HTTP::uri_fake_params_start   false            no        Add a fake start of params to the URI (eg: /%3fa=b/../)
   HTTP::uri_full_url            false            no        Use the full URL for all HTTP requests
   HTTP::uri_use_backslashes     false            no        Use back slashes instead of forward slashes in the uri
   HTTP::version_random_invalid  false            no        Use a random invalid, HTTP version for request
   HTTP::version_random_valid    false            no        Use a random, but valid, HTTP version for request

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Error Messages

This module may fail with the following error messages:

Check for the possible causes from the code snippets below found in the module source code. This can often times help in identifying the root cause of the problem.

no response for <TARGET_HOST>

Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "no response for <TARGET_HOST>" error message:

42:	      vprint_status("#{peer} - Requesting #{request}#{vhost_status}")
43:	      c = connect
44:	      res = c.send_recv("#{request}\r\n\r\n", 25)
45:	
46:	      if res.nil?
47:	        print_error("no response for #{target_host}")
48:	
49:	      elsif ((res.code > 300) && (res.code < 310))
50:	        intipregex = /(192\.168\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}|10\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}|172\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3})/i
51:	        print_good("Location Header: #{res.headers['Location']}")
52:	        result = res.headers['Location'].scan(intipregex).uniq.flatten

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Related Pull Requests

• #13579 Merged Pull Request: more iis internal ip info
• #13562 Merged Pull Request: iis_internal_ip docs and vprint_status
• #12689 Merged Pull Request: iis internal ip references
• #8888 Merged Pull Request: spelling/grammar fixes part 1
• #8716 Merged Pull Request: Print_Status -> Print_Good (And OCD bits 'n bobs)
• #8338 Merged Pull Request: Fix msf/core and self.class msftidy warnings
• #6655 Merged Pull Request: use MetasploitModule as a class name
• #6648 Merged Pull Request: Change metasploit class names
• #2525 Merged Pull Request: Change module boilerplate

References

• CVE-2000-0649
• BID-1499
• EDB-20096
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/218180/internet-information-server-returns-ip-address-in-http-header-content
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/967342/fix-the-internal-ip-address-of-an-iis-7-0-server-is-revealed-if-an-htt
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/iis-support-blog/iis-web-servers-running-in-windows-azure-may-reveal-their/ba-p/826500

See Also

Check also the following modules related to this module:

• auxiliary/scanner/http/webdav_internal_ip
• auxiliary/scanner/http/iis_shortname_scanner
• auxiliary/admin/http/iis_auth_bypass
• auxiliary/dos/windows/ftp/iis_list_exhaustion
• exploit/windows/iis/iis_webdav_scstoragepathfromurl
• exploit/windows/iis/iis_webdav_upload_asp
• exploit/windows/iis/ms01_023_printer
• exploit/windows/iis/ms01_026_dbldecode
• exploit/windows/iis/ms01_033_idq
• exploit/windows/iis/ms02_018_htr
• exploit/windows/iis/ms02_065_msadc
• exploit/windows/iis/ms03_007_ntdll_webdav
• exploit/windows/iis/msadc
• auxiliary/dos/windows/ftp/iis75_ftpd_iac_bof
• auxiliary/scanner/http/owa_iis_internal_ip
• auxiliary/gather/external_ip
• exploit/windows/isapi/ms03_022_nsiislog_post
• auxiliary/scanner/ip/ipidseq
• auxiliary/scanner/http/hp_sitescope_getfileinternal_fileaccess
• auxiliary/scanner/http/exchange_web_server_pushsubscription
• auxiliary/scanner/http/f5_bigip_virtual_server
• auxiliary/scanner/http/ipboard_login
• auxiliary/scanner/http/limesurvey_zip_traversals
• auxiliary/scanner/http/rips_traversal
• auxiliary/scanner/http/smt_ipmi_49152_exposure
• auxiliary/scanner/http/smt_ipmi_cgi_scanner
• auxiliary/scanner/http/smt_ipmi_static_cert_scanner
• auxiliary/scanner/http/smt_ipmi_url_redirect_traversal
• auxiliary/scanner/http/vicidial_multiple_sqli

Authors

• Heather Pilkington

Version

This page has been produced using Metasploit Framework version 6.2.23-dev. For more modules, visit the Metasploit Module Library.

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