CVE-2011-5279 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

CRLF 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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.08547.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Microsoft	Internet Information Services Windows 2000 Windows Nt

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

OR	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:4.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:5.0:::::::*

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:-:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:-:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2011-5178	CRLF 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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://hi.baidu.com/yuange1975/item/b2cc7141c22108e91e19bc2e
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/0
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/13
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/108
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/128
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/247

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-04-23T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T00:30:46.943Z

Reserved: 2014-04-23T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-5279

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-04-23T20:55:06.623

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2011-5279

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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