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CVE-2008-4301
A certain ActiveX control in iisext.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to set a password via a…
High10.0EPSS 17.1%
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- mitre
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
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.1% · top 2.9% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- 20080924 Internet Information Service remote set password (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20081002 Fwd: Internet Information Service remote set password (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VIMx_transferred
- iis-iisext-weak-security(45587) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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