CVE-2008-4301

CriticalCVSS 10.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

A certain ActiveX control in iisext.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to set a password via a string argument to the SetPassword method. NOTE: this issue could not be reproduced by a reliable third party. In addition, the original researcher is unreliable. Therefore the original disclosure is probably erroneous

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 10.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-October/002081.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496694/100/0/threadedExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45587Broken Link
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-October/002081.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496694/100/0/threadedExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45587Broken Link

Timeline

Published: Sep 29, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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