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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2011-5279

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…

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 19.2%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 19.2%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

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.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS
19.24% probability · 97th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
microsoft/internet information services
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.