CVE-2002-1908

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
11.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 6% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: December 31, 2002 (8535 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft IIS 5.0 and 5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP request with a Host header that contains a large number of "/" (forward slash) characters.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet information services

References

🔗 www.iss.net 🔗 www.securiteam.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.iss.net 🔗 www.securiteam.com