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CVE-2002-0079

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 78.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the chunked encoding transfer mechanism in Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0 Active Server Pages allows attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: 4.0
• Microsoft IIS: 5.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101846993304518&w=2
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-09.html
• http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/Microsoft-IIS-vulnerabilities-MS02-018.shtml
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8795.php
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/610291
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4485
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-018
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A25
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101846993304518&w=2
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-09.html
• http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/Microsoft-IIS-vulnerabilities-MS02-018.shtml

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