CVE-1999-1537

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
1.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 20% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: July 7, 1999 (9808 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet information server

References

🔗 marc.info 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 marc.info 🔗 www.securityfocus.com