CVE-2011-5279 (GCVE-0-2011-5279)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-23 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:30
VLAI
Summary
CRLF injection vulnerability in the CGI implementation in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 4.x and 5.x on Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary uppercase environment variables via a \n (newline) character in an HTTP header.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/247 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/128 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/0 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/108 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://hi.baidu.com/yuange1975/item/b2cc7141c2210… x_refsource_MISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/13 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Date Public
2011-01-01 00:00
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