CVE-2009-2521

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."

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secure@microsoft.com

Published

2009-09-04

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

• Internet Information Services (Microsoft)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-09/0040.html
• http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ975191
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-053
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6508