Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server
CVE-1999-1538
When IIS 2 or 3 is upgraded to IIS 4, ism.dll is inadvertently left in /scripts/iisadmin, which does not restrict access to the local machine and allows an unauthorized user to gain access to sensitive server information, including the Administrator's password.
EPSS: 0.255 (97.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_information_server — versions 4.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)