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CVE-2005-2678

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 41.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-08-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft IIS 5.1 and 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the SERVER_NAME variable to bypass security checks and conduct various attacks via a GET request with an http://localhost URI, which makes it appear as if the request is coming from localhost.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: 6.0
• Microsoft IIS: 5.0

References

• http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2005/08/remote-iis-5x-and-iis-60-server-name.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112474727903399&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16548
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1503
• http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2005/08/remote-iis-5x-and-iis-60-server-name.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112474727903399&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16548
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1503

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