CVE-2009-2521

Stack consumption vulnerability in the FTP Service in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 through 7.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a list (ls) -R command containing a wildcard that references a subdirectory, followed by a .. (dot dot), aka "IIS FTP Service DoS Vulnerability."

CVSS v2.0 NVD

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

82.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile

Published

2009-09-04

Updated

2024-08-07

Metasploit modules (1)

• rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/windows/ftp/iis_list_exhaus…

ExploitDB entries (2)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9587
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17476

Security advisories

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-053
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286A.html
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A65…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry