CVE-1999-1537

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

IIS 3.x and 4.x does not distinguish between pages requiring encryption and those that do not, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via SSL requests to the HTTPS port for normally unencrypted files, which will cause IIS to perform extra work to send the files over SSL.

IIS 3.x and 4.x does not distinguish between pages requiring encryption and those that do not, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via SSL requests to the HTTPS port for normally unencrypted files, which will cause IIS to perform extra work to send the files over SSL.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft IIS

First reported 25 years ago

1999-07-07 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft IIS 3.0

3.0

Microsoft IIS 4.0

4.0

References

19990707 SSL and IIS.

521

Patch, Vendor Advisory

ssl-iis-dos(2352)

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