MS.IIS.WebDAV.Privilege.Elevation

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This indicates an attack attempt to exploit an authentication-bypass vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows IIS server.
The vulnerability is caused by an error that occurs when the vulnerable
software handles a malicious Web DAV request. A remote attacker may exploit this to bypass the authentication via a crafted HTTP request.

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Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0

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Security Bypass: Remote attackers can bypass security checking of vulnerable systems.

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Refer to the Microsoft Security Advisory for the suggested workaround:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms09-020.mspx

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Coverage

IPS (Regular DB)
IPS (Extended DB)