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Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Buffer overflow in the ScStoragePathFromUrl function in the WebDAV service in Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long header beginning with "If: <http://" in a PROPFIND request, as exploited in the wild in July or August 2016.

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First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Trend Micro Virus Control System (TVCS) 1.8 running with IIS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) in IIS via multiple URL requests for ActiveSupport.exe.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
XSS
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) in the ASP function responsible for redirection in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1 allows remote attackers to embed a URL containing script in a redirection message.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The ASP function Response.AddHeader in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0 does not limit memory requests when constructing headers, which allow remote attackers to generate a large header to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) with an ASP page.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

ISM.DLL in IIS 4.0 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to read file contents by requesting the file and appending a large number of encoded spaces (%20) and terminated with a .htr extension, aka the ".HTR File Fragment Reading" or "File Fragment Reading via .HTR" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The shtml.exe program in the FrontPage extensions package of IIS 4.0 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to determine the physical path of HTML, HTM, ASP, and SHTML files by requesting a file that does not exist, which generates an error message that reveals the path.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IIS 4.05 and 5.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long, complex URL that appears to contain a large number of file extensions, aka the "Malformed Extension Data in URL" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Microsoft IIS 4.0 and 5.0 with the IISADMPWD virtual directory installed allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a malformed request to the inetinfo.exe program, aka the "Undelimited .HTR Request" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

IIS 4.0 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending many URLs with a large number of escaped characters, aka the "Myriad Escaped Characters" Vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

IIS 4.0 and 5.0 does not properly perform ISAPI extension processing if a virtual directory is mapped to a UNC share, which allows remote attackers to read the source code of ASP and other files, aka the "Virtualized UNC Share" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IIS 4.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service by requesting a large buffer in a POST or PUT command which consumes memory, aka the "Chunked Transfer Encoding Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."

First published (updated )
Severity
2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IIS Inetinfo.exe allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating a mail file with a long name and a .txt.eml extension in the pickup directory.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Sample Internet Data Query (IDQ) scripts in IIS 3 and 4 allow remote attackers to read files via a .. (dot dot) attack.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Frontpage Server Extensions allows remote attackers to determine the name of the anonymous account via an RPC POST request to shtml.dll in the /vtibin/ virtual directory.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IIS allows local users to cause a denial of service via invalid regular expressions in a Visual Basic script in an ASP page.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

IIS 4.0 allows a remote attacker to obtain the real pathname of the document root by requesting non-existent files with .ida or .idq extensions.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

IIS 4.0 and Site Server 3.0 allow remote attackers to read source code for ASP files if the file is in a virtual directory whose name includes extensions such as .com, .exe, .sh, .cgi, or .dll, aka the "Virtual Directory Naming" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

IIS does not properly canonicalize URLs, potentially allowing remote attackers to bypass access restrictions in third-party software via escape characters, aka the "Escape Character Parsing" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) server 4.0 SP4, without certain hotfixes released for SP4, does not require authentication credentials under certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication requirements, as demonstrated by connecting via Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Buffer overflow in FTP server in Microsoft IIS 3.0 and 4.0 allows local and sometimes remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long NLST (ls) command.

First published (updated )
Severity
2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

When IIS 2 or 3 is upgraded to IIS 4, ism.dll is inadvertently left in /scripts/iisadmin, which does not restrict access to the local machine and allows an unauthorized user to gain access to sensitive server information, including the Administrator's password.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IIS 3.x and 4.x does not distinguish between pages requiring encryption and those that do not, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via SSL requests to the HTTPS port for normally unencrypted files, which will cause IIS to perform extra work to send the files over SSL.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The Sun HotSpot Performance Engine VM allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service on any server running HotSpot via a URL that includes the [ character.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The Winmsdp.exe sample file in IIS 4.0 and Site Server 3.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in fpcount.exe in IIS 4.0 with FrontPage Server Extensions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

FileSystemObject (FSO) in the showfile.asp Active Server Page (ASP) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by specifying the name in the file parameter.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

IIS 4.0 does not properly restrict access for the initial session request from a user's IP address if the address does not resolve to a DNS domain, aka the "Domain Resolution" vulnerability.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IIS 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a request to an ASP page in which the URL contains a large number of / (forward slash) characters.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

FTP service in IIS 4.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via many passive (PASV) connections at the same time.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IIS 3.0 and 4.0 on x86 and Alpha allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) via a malformed GET request, aka the IIS "GET" vulnerability.

First published (updated )

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