CVE-2001-1186

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
25.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: December 11, 2001 (8920 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft IIS 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an HTTP request with a content-length value that is larger than the size of the request, which prevents IIS from timing out the connection.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet information services

References

🔗 online.securityfocus.com 🔗 online.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.iss.net 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com