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CVE-1999-0278

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 64.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1999-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

In IIS, remote attackers can obtain source code for ASP files by appending "::$DATA" to the URL.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: 3.0, 4.0
• Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1998/ms98-003
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A913
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1998/ms98-003
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A913

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