CVE-2001-0146 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in IIS and Exchange by sending specially formatted URLs, requiring immediate patching.

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-2001-0146?

CVE-2001-0146 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server, published on 9 Mar 2001. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IIS 5.0 and Microsoft Exchange 2000 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory allocation error) by repeatedly sending a series of specially formatted URL's.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-0146?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services.

How do I fix CVE-2001-0146?

No fix has been published for CVE-2001-0146 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-2001-0146 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2001-0146 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-97pw-3crv-m6c8.

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