CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4301
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet information services
References
- http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-October/002081.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496694/100/0/threaded Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45587 Broken Link
- http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-October/002081.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496694/100/0/threaded Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45587 Broken Link