CVE-1999-0407
HighExploitation Probability (EPSS)
Very high risk91th percentile - higher than 91% of all known CVEs
Summary
By default, IIS 4.0 has a virtual directory /IISADMPWD which contains files that can be used as proxies for brute force password attacks, or to identify valid users on the system.
Risk Assessment
The presence of this directory poses a security risk, allowing attackers to perform password attacks and identify users, potentially leading to unauthorized access.
Recommendation
It is recommended to remove or block access to the /IISADMPWD directory to minimize the risk associated with password attacks.
Other vulnerabilities in IIS 4.0
See all- CVE-2000-0226Medium
IIS 4.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service by requesting a large buffer in a POST or PUT command, leading to memory exhaustion.
- CVE-2000-0115Medium
IIS allows local users to cause a denial of service via invalid regular expressions in a Visual Basic script in an ASP page.
- CVE-2000-0071Medium
IIS 4.0 allows a remote attacker to obtain the real pathname of the document root by requesting non-existent files with .ida or .idq extensions.
- CVE-1999-1233High
IIS 4.0 does not properly restrict access for the initial session request from a user's IP address if the address does not resolve to a DNS domain. This is known as the 'Domain Resolution' vulnerability.
- CVE-1999-1223Medium
IIS 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a request to an ASP page in which the URL contains a large number of / (forward slash) characters.
- CVE-2000-0024Medium
IIS does not properly canonicalize URLs, potentially allowing remote attackers to bypass access restrictions in third-party software via escape characters.
- CVE-1999-0867Medium
Vulnerability in IIS 4.0 allows a denial of service attack by flooding the server with HTTP requests containing malformed headers.
- CVE-1999-0874High
Buffer overflow in IIS 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed request for files with .HTR, .IDC, or .STM extensions.
- CVE-1999-0449High
The ExAir sample site in IIS 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a direct request to the (1) advsearch.asp, (2) query.asp, or (3) search.asp scripts.
- CVE-1999-0450High
In IIS, an attacker could determine a real path using a request for a non-existent URL that would be interpreted by Perl (perl.exe).
Original NVD description (English source)
By default, IIS 4.0 has a virtual directory /IISADMPWD which contains files that can be used as proxies for brute force password attacks, or to identify valid users on the system.