Input validation error in Microsoft products - CVE-2019-0941
Published: June 12, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18777
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-0941
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the filtering feature. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected Microsoft IIS server and perform a denial of service attack against pages, configured to use request filtering.
Affected software
Microsoft Windows
Windows Server
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Windows Server
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
How to mitigate CVE-2019-0941
Install updates from vendor's website.