
Riproduzione educativa dell'exploit di CVE-2017-7269, un buffer overflow in IIS 6.0 WebDAV, con guida all'installazione, analisi della vulnerabilità e tentativo di sfruttamento tramite Metasploit su Windows Server 2003 R2.
Nome : Killian Munt-Buron and Naji Ullah Abbasi
CVE-2017-7269 è una vulnerabilità di buffer overflow in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2.
La vulnerabilità si trova nella funzione ScStoragePathFromUrl in WebDAV.
Questa vulnerabilità permette di eseguire codice arbitrario tramite un header lungo.
Gli header iniziano con if: <http://
Usa un file iso (link per il download : https://archive.org/details/en_windows_server_2003_standard)
Pannello di controllo => Installazione applicazioni => Aggiungi/Rimuovi componenti di Windows
Seleziona Application Server, poi clicca su Dettagli.
Seleziona Internet Information Services (IIS)
Verifica che Common files e World Wide Web Service siano selezionati.
Per verificare che IIS sia stato installato, apri con Internet Explorer questo URL: http://localhost/
Se hai seguito le istruzioni, vedrai questa schermata:

Vai a Internet Information Services Manager => clicca sul nome del dispositivo => vai a Estensione servizio Web => fai clic con il tasto destro su WebDAV e abilitalo

Abbiamo la macchina attaccante, con la VM Ubuntu :

E la vittima, con la VM Windows :

Dalla macchina attaccante, possiamo vedere la vittima usando Nmap :

Abbiamo provato a riprodurre la vulnerabilità ma abbiamo riscontrato un problema.
Sulla macchina vittima, creiamo una directory /webdav.

E aggiungiamo i permessi di lettura, scrittura e navigazione directory :

Con cadaver, un client WebDAV, possiamo vedere che la comunicazione funziona :


Per prima cosa, usiamo uno script per vedere se il server risponde con una richiesta PROFIND :
import socket
host = "192.168.79.153"
port = 80
request = (
"PROPFIND /webdav/ HTTP/1.1\r\n"
"Host: {host}\r\n"
"Content-Length: 0\r\n"
"Content-Type: text/xml\r\n"
"Depth: 0\r\n"
"Translate: f\r\n"
"\r\n"
).format(host=host)
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((host, port))
s.send(request.encode())
response = s.recv(4096)
s.close()
print(response.decode())
Abbiamo questo :
killian@vmlinux:~$ python3 mis3.py
HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:22:56 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/xml
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Dopodiché, usiamo Metasploit, per generare il buffer overflow :

Ma abbiamo riscontrato un problema con Internet Information Services (IIS)
Abbiamo questo nel log :
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 207 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
2026-01-19 13:19:50 192.168.79.153 PROPFIND /webdav - 80 - 192.168.79.154 Mozilla/5.0+(Macintosh;+Intel+Mac+OS+X+14.7;+rv:133.0)+Gecko/20100101+Firefox/133.0 500 0 0
Abbiamo molte risposte HTTP 500 Internal Server Error. Questo indica che IIS ha incontrato eccezioni interne durante l'elaborazione di richieste WebDAV malformate, il che è normale per questa CVE.
Abbiamo provato a capire il problema, usare altri script python, payload con metasploit, ma sempre lo stesso problema.
Abbiamo verificato che il Server Windows 2003 è vulnerabile con questo :
wmic qfe list | find "KB4011783"
Per quanto riguarda il firewall di Windows, il server non ne è dotato, secondo noi ricercatori.
Sebbene non sia stata ottenuta l'esecuzione remota completa di codice, i risultati sperimentali dimostrano che il percorso del codice WebDAV vulnerabile associato a CVE-2017-7269 è raggiungibile sul sistema target.
Il server elabora costantemente richieste PROPFIND malformate e restituisce errori interni del server (HTTP 500), indicando problemi di gestione della memoria coerenti con la vulnerabilità documentata.
L'incapacità di ottenere uno sfruttamento affidabile è probabilmente dovuta a fattori ambientali come la configurazione del sistema operativo o mitigazioni di sicurezza non documentate.
Questo progetto è stato condotto rigorosamente in un ambiente di laboratorio controllato e solo a scopo educativo.