CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1537

5.0 MEDIUM Published 1999-07-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-07-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet information server 3.0 • microsoft internet information server 4.0

References