Last weekend at Shmoocon, I demonstrated how an attacker can trick certain WCF web services into performing an unauthorized port scan of machines behind a firewall. For those that were not able to attend the talk, the slides are posted here. The part that covers the port scanning technique may not be clear in isolation, so I’ll try and explain it in detail. The problem is related to the WSDualHttpBinding, so in order to understand how the scanning technique works you must first understand some WSDualHttpBinding basics.
