CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2678

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2005-08-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-08-23
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

Microsoft IIS 5.1 and 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the SERVER_NAME variable to bypass security checks and conduct various attacks via a GET request with an http://localhost URI, which makes it appear as if the request is coming from localhost.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet information server 6.0 • microsoft internet information services 5.0

References