CVE-2011-5279

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-5279
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-04-23 20:55:06 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionCRLF injection vulnerability in the CGI implementation in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 4.x and 5.x on Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary uppercase environment variables via a \n (newline) character in an HTTP header.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Internet Information Services 4.0 All All All
Application Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Nt - All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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Full Disclosure: iis cgi 0day af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: Re: iis bug af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: Re: iis cgi 0day af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: FW: iis bug af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: Re: iis cgi 0day af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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