CVE-2008-4300

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

A certain ActiveX control in adsiis.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a long string in the second argument to the GetObject method. NOTE: this issue was disclosed by an unreliable researcher, so it might be incorrect.

Affected products

Microsoft IIS: all versions

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4325
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496696/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45584
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4325
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496696/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45584

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