CVE-1999-0281

Medium

Published: 01/06/1997(UTC)Updated: 16/06/2026(UTC)Translated: 18/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk

12.59%

96th percentile - higher than 96% of all known CVEs

CVE-1999-0281 vulnerability involves a denial of service attack in IIS that can be triggered by sending long URLs.

An attacker can disrupt access to server services, leading to downtime and loss of application availability.

It is recommended to monitor URL lengths and implement limits to prevent such attacks.

Original NVD description (English source)

Denial of service in IIS using long URLs.