Overview
A vulnerability in IIS could allow an intruder to disrupt ordinary operations of both FTP and Web services on vulnerable IIS servers.
Description
IIS includes an FTP server. An intruder who sends a malformed request for the status of an existing connection could cause the IIS server to fail, resulting in the loss of both FTP service and HTTP service. In order to be able to issue the status request, an intruder needs an existing FTP session, which means he either has to have login credentials or anonymous FTP access to a vulnerable system. (Theoretically, an intruder may also be able to exploit this vulnerability by injecting data into an existing FTP session through ISN prediction or other techniques. ) For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-018. |
Impact
Intruders can halt the operation of vulnerable IIS servers. On IIS 5.0 and IIS 5.1, IIS will automatically restart, though the intruder may be able to repeat the attack indefinitely. On IIS 4.0, IIS has to be manually restarted. |
Solution
Apply a patch as described in MS02-018. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Our thanks to Microsoft Corporation, upon whose advisory this document is based.
This document was written by Shawn V. Hernan.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2002-0073 |
| Severity Metric: | 24.48 |
| Date Public: | 2002-04-10 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-04-10 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2002-04-10 21:05 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 5 |