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CVE-2002-1908

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2002-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft IIS 5.0 and 5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP request with a Host header that contains a large number of "/" (forward slash) characters.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Information Services

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References