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Microsoft Windows ASP.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability (970957)

🗓️ 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AGType 
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Microsoft Windows ASP.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability (970957) allows remote attackers to cause unresponsive application pool, denying service to legitimate users. The flaw is caused by an error in ASP.NET when managing request scheduling, potentially created by specially crafted anonymous HTTP requests

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801482");
  script_version("2026-04-28T06:28:06+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-28 06:28:06 +0000 (Tue, 28 Apr 2026)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-12-13 14:33:55 +0100 (Mon, 13 Dec 2010)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1536");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"2.6");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_name("Microsoft Windows ASP.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability (970957)");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2231");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35985");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-036");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Windows : Microsoft Bulletins");
  script_dependencies("secpod_reg_enum.nasl");
  script_require_ports(139, 445);
  script_mandatory_keys("SMB/registry_enumerated");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to cause the application
  pool on the affected web server to become unresponsive, denying service to
  legitimate users.");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5/SP 1

  - Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP 1/SP 2");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaws is caused by caused by an error in ASP.NET when managing request
  scheduling, which could allow attackers to create specially crafted anonymous
  HTTP requests and cause the web server with ASP.NET in integrated mode to
  become non-responsive.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for more information.");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"This host is missing a critical security update according to
  Microsoft Bulletin MS09-036.");
  exit(0);
}

include("smb_nt.inc");
include("secpod_reg.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
include("secpod_smb_func.inc");

if(hotfix_check_sp(winVista:3, win2008:3) <= 0){
  exit(0);
}

if((hotfix_missing(name:"972591") == 0) || (hotfix_missing(name:"972592") == 0)||
   (hotfix_missing(name:"972593") == 0) || (hotfix_missing(name:"972594") == 0)){
    exit(0);
}

key = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ASP.NET\";
if(!registry_key_exists(key:key)){
  exit(0);
}

foreach item (registry_enum_keys(key:key))
{
  path = registry_get_sz(key:key + item, item:"Path");
  if("\Microsoft.NET\Framework" >< path)
  {
    Ver = fetch_file_version(sysPath:path, file_name:"system.web.dll");
    if(Ver)
    {
      if(hotfix_check_sp(winVista:3, win2008:3) > 0)
      {
        if(version_in_range(version:Ver, test_version:"2.0.50727.1000", test_version2:"2.0.50727.1870") ||
           version_in_range(version:Ver, test_version:"2.0.50727.3000", test_version2:"2.0.50727.3600"))
        {
          security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
          exit(0);
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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