CVE-2002-0079 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability within the chunked encoding transfer mechanism of Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) versions 4.0 and 5.0 Active Server Pages. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely trigger a denial of service or execute arbitrary code on affected systems. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently on the KEV catalog or Hot List, multiple exploit proofs-of-concept are publicly available on ExploitDB, indicating its historical exploitability, though there is no recent community or media discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_server:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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