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CVE-2002-2081

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-07-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

cphost.dll in Microsoft Site Server 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via an HTTP POST of a file with a long TargetURL parameter, which causes Site Server to abort and leaves the uploaded file in c:\temp.

Affected products

• Microsoft Site Server: 3.0, 3.0-apha, 3.0-sp1, 3.0-sp1_alpha, 3.0-sp2, 3.0-sp2_alpha (+4)
• Microsoft Site Server Commerce: 3.0, 3.0-alpha, 3.0-sp1_alpha, 3.0-sp2_alpha, 3.0-sp3_alpha, 3.0-sp4_alpha

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q1/0033.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8053.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4002
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q1/0033.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8053.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4002

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