CVE-2003-0225

Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0-5.0 - Denial of Service via Response.AddHeader Memory Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The ASP function Response.AddHeader in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0 does not limit memory requests when constructing headers, which allow remote attackers to generate a large header to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) with an ASP page.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A373
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_ntbugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=105110606122772&w=2
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://www.aqtronix.com/Advisories/AQ-2003-01.txt

Scores

EPSS 0.3652
EPSS Percentile 98.3%

Details

Status published
Products (2)
microsoft/internet_information_server 4.0
microsoft/internet_information_services 5.0
Published Jun 09, 2003
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026