CVE-1999-1537 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in IIS by sending SSL requests to unencrypted files, forcing resource exhaustion.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-1999-1537?
CVE-1999-1537 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server, published on 1 Sep 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IIS 3.x and 4.x does not distinguish between pages requiring encryption and those that do not, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via SSL requests to the HTTPS port for normally unencrypted files, which will cause IIS to perform extra work to send the files over SSL.
Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1537?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Internet Information Server.
How do I fix CVE-1999-1537?
No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1537 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-1999-1537 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1537 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Information Server
- CVE-2008-0075 Code injection in n/a
- CVE-1999-1376 Buffer overflow in fpcount.exe in IIS 4.0 with FrontPage Server Extensions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
- CVE-1999-0407 By default, IIS 4.0 has a virtual directory /IISADMPWD which contains files that can be used as proxies for brute force password attacks, or
- CVE-1999-0874 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2009-3023 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-54rf-m93w-vh4v.