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CVE-2011-5279 Details

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the CGI implementation in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 4.x and 5.x on Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary uppercase environment variables via a \n (newline) character in an HTTP header.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://hi.baidu.com/yuange1975/item/b2cc7141c22108e91e19bc2e CVEThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/0 CVEExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/13 CVEExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/108 CVEExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/128 CVEExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-OtherWeakness Not in a Standard CWE Category[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
microsoft internet information services
4.0
5.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
microsoft windows 2000
All versions

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
microsoft windows nt
All versions

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2011-5279
NVD Published Date:
Apr 23, 2014
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2011-5279 Details - Not Deferred