CVE-2008-4301

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
26.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: September 29, 2008 (6436 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

A certain ActiveX control in iisext.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to set a password via a string argument to the SetPassword method. NOTE: this issue could not be reproduced by a reliable third party. In addition, the original researcher is unreliable. Therefore the original disclosure is probably erroneous

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

microsoft internet information services

References

🔗 www.attrition.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 www.attrition.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com