CVE-2009-2521
MEDIUMEPSS 100th pctlDescription
Stack consumption vulnerability in the FTP Service in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 through 7.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a list (ls) -R command containing a wildcard that references a subdirectory, followed by a .. (dot dot), aka "IIS FTP Service DoS Vulnerability."
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-09/0040.html
- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ975191
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286A.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-053
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6508
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