CVE-2001-1243

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
20.8%
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: July 4, 2001 (9080 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Scripting.FileSystemObject in asp.dll for Microsoft IIS 4.0 and 5.0 allows local or remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) creating an ASP program that uses Scripting.FileSystemObject to open a file with an MS-DOS device name, or (2) remotely injecting the device name into ASP programs that internally use Scripting.FileSystemObject.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet information servermicrosoft internet information services

References

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