IIS ASP caching problem releases sensitive information when two virtual servers share the same physical directory.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• microsoft internet information server4.0

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2009-3023Buffer overflow in the FTP Service in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote authenticated users to exe
  63This week
• CVE-1999-0874Buffer overflow in IIS 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed request for files with .HTR, .IDC, or .STM e
  62This week
• CVE-2008-0075Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
  57Plan
• CVE-2001-0333Directory traversal vulnerability in IIS 5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by encoding ..
  57Plan
• CVE-2006-0026Buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 allows local and possibly remote attackers to execute arb
  53Plan
• CVE-2002-0079Buffer overflow in the chunked encoding transfer mechanism in Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0 Active Server Pages allows attac
  53Plan

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.