CVE-2008-4300

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
14.2%
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: September 29, 2008 (6436 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

A certain ActiveX control in adsiis.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a long string in the second argument to the GetObject method. NOTE: this issue was disclosed by an unreliable researcher, so it might be incorrect.

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

microsoft internet information services

References

🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com