CVE-2005-2678

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
44.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: August 23, 2005 (7569 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft IIS 5.1 and 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the SERVER_NAME variable to bypass security checks and conduct various attacks via a GET request with an http://localhost URI, which makes it appear as if the request is coming from localhost.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet information servermicrosoft internet information services

References

🔗 ingehenriksen.blogspot.com 🔗 marc.info 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 www.vupen.com 🔗 ingehenriksen.blogspot.com