CVE-2007-2221

published 2007-05-08

CVE-2007-2221: Unspecified vulnerability in the mdsauth.dll COM object in Microsoft Windows Media Server in the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4; 6…

Priority P3 55 critical 9.3 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC M Au N C C I C A C

EXPLOIT

Unspecified vulnerability in the mdsauth.dll COM object in Microsoft Windows Media Server in the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4; 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP4; 6 and 7 on Windows XP SP2, or Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2; or 7 on Windows Vista allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via unspecified vectors, aka the "Arbitrary File Rewrite Vulnerability."

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
microsoft	internet_explorer	—	—
microsoft	internet_explorer	—	—
microsoft	internet_explorer	—	—
microsoft	internet_explorer	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

filename mdsauth.dll↗

path c:\boot.ini↗

url http://www.514.es↗

• → Monitor COM object instantiation of mdsauth.dll (NMSA Session Description Object) from browser processes, particularly Internet Explorer, for invocation of the SaveAs method targeting sensitive system files. ↗
• → Alert on any web content (HTML/script) that sets SessionDescription, SessionAuthor, SessionEmailContact, or SessionURL properties on the mdsauth.dll COM object and then calls SaveAs to write to arbitrary file paths. ↗
• → The exploit payload is encoded as UTF-16; inspect script content delivered in UTF-16 encoding that references mdsauth.dll COM object methods. ↗

• · The vulnerability is described as 'unspecified' with no further technical detail on the exact trigger vectors beyond the SaveAs method abuse demonstrated in the PoC. ↗

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