CVE-2008-4301

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.1% 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 iisext.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to set a password via a string argument to the SetPassword method. NOTE: this issue could not be reproduced by a reliable third party. In addition, the original researcher is unreliable. Therefore the original disclosure is probably erroneous

Affected products

Microsoft IIS: all versions

References

http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-October/002081.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496694/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45587
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-October/002081.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496694/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45587

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