CVE-1999-1537 (GCVE-0-1999-1537)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:18
VLAI
Summary
IIS 3.x and 4.x does not distinguish between pages requiring encryption and those that do not, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via SSL requests to the HTTPS port for normally unencrypted files, which will cause IIS to perform extra work to send the files over SSL.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93138827329577&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/521 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
1999-07-07 00:00
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