CVE-2009-2521 (GCVE-0-2009-2521)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-09-04 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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Date Public
2009-09-03 00:00
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