{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-1538 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1538 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-1999-1538 is a low-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server, published on 12 Sep 2001. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-1999-1538 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-1999-1538 is a low-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server, published on 12 Sep 2001. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-1538 exists.\n\nAffected product: Microsoft Internet Information Server. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1538/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1538/index.md)","id":"CVE-1999-1538","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1538/index.md","name":"CVE-1999-1538","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-9cm9-h986-74j4"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"configuration_change","impacts":["data_read","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Microsoft IIS","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can access sensitive server information, including the Administrator's password, due to leftover files from an IIS upgrade.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"internet_information_server","vendor":"microsoft"}],"cvss":{"score":2.1,"severity":"low","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"1999-01-14","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"1999-01-14","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"19147","stars":null,"title":"Microsoft IIS 4 (Windows NT) - Remote Web-Based Administration"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1538","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"microsoft:internet_information_server","products":["microsoft:internet_information_server"],"type":"information_disclosure","year":"1999"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1539"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-1537"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2001-09-12","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-0075","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2008-02-12"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Buffer overflow in fpcount.exe in IIS 4.0 with FrontPage Server Extensions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.","id":"CVE-1999-1376","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2001-09-12"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"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","id":"CVE-1999-0407","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-06-02"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-1999-0874","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2000-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-3023","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-08-31"},{"cvss_score":8.5,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2010-1256","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2010-06-08"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-0087","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-01-05"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-01","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"An attacker can access sensitive server information, including the Administrator's password, due to leftover files from an IIS upgrade.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1538/"}