CVE-2000-0970 Auth bypass in n/a
Remote attackers can hijack secure web sessions by exploiting shared Session ID cookies between secure and insecure IIS sessions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2000-0970?
CVE-2000-0970 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server, published on 22 Jan 2001. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
IIS 4.0 and 5.0 .ASP pages send the same Session ID cookie for secure and insecure web sessions, which could allow remote attackers to hijack the secure web session of the user if that user moves to an insecure session, aka the "Session ID Cookie Marking" vulnerability.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0970?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services.
How do I fix CVE-2000-0970?
No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0970 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2000-0970 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-0970 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- 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-rhm7-5gpj-qgx2.