CVE-2006-1364 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in IIS ASP.NET by repeatedly requesting documents referencing COM components when the AspCompat directive is not used.
- 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-2006-1364?
CVE-2006-1364 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 23 Mar 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Microsoft w3wp (aka w3wp.exe) does not properly handle when the AspCompat directive is not used when referencing COM components in ASP.NET, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or crash) by repeatedly requesting each of several documents that refer to COM components, or are restricted documents located under the ASP.NET application path.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1364?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Asp.net.
How do I fix CVE-2006-1364?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-1364 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-2006-1364 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-1364 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c7vq-ch45-23mm.