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CVE-2008-4301

N/A
Published: September 29, 2008 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorInternet Information Services

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 17%

Description

A certain ActiveX control in iisext.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to set a password via a string argument to the SetPassword method. NOTE: this issue could not be reproduced by a reliable third party. In addition, the original researcher is unreliable. Therefore the original disclosure is probably erroneous

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (3)

Mailing Listx_refsource_VIMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-October/002081.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496694/100/0/threaded
VDB Entryx_refsource_XFBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45587

CVSS

10HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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