Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-1186 - Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Microsoft IIS 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an HTTP request with a content-length value that is larger than the size of the request, which prevents IIS from timing out the connection.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Exploit-Db
| description | Microsoft IIS 5.0 False Content-Length Field DoS Vulnerability. CVE-2001-1186 . Dos exploit for windows platform |
| id | EDB-ID:21177 |
| last seen | 2016-02-02 |
| modified | 2001-12-11 |
| published | 2001-12-11 |
| reporter | Ivan Hernandez Puga |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/21177/ |
| title | Microsoft IIS 5.0 False Content-Length Field DoS Vulnerability |