CVE-2008-4301

First published: Mon Sep 29 2008(Updated: )

** DISPUTED ** A certain ActiveX control in iisext.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to set a password via a string argument to the SetPassword method. NOTE: this issue could not be reproduced by a reliable third party. In addition, the original researcher is unreliable. Therefore the original disclosure is probably erroneous.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

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