CVE-2007-2815

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
85.9%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: May 22, 2007 (6931 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The "hit-highlighting" functionality in webhits.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server 5.0 only uses Windows NT ACL configuration, which allows remote attackers to bypass NTLM and basic authentication mechanisms and access private web directories via the CiWebhitsfile parameter to null.htw.

CWE

CWE-264

Affected Products

microsoft internet information services

References

🔗 osvdb.org 🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 support.microsoft.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com