Resource exhaustion in Microsoft Internet_information_services

CVE-2009-2521

Stack consumption vulnerability in the FTP Service in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 through 7.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a list (ls) -R command containing a wildc…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.823 (99.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2009-2521?
CVE-2009-2521 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet_information_services, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. Published 2009-09-04.
Is CVE-2009-2521 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.