CVE-1999-1537 - 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

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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

Published Sep 1, 2004

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 8.53%

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93138827329577&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/521
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-1999-1518
Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2352
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93138827329577&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/521		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-1999-1518		Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2352		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF