Security Advisory

CVE-2005-2678

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-08-23 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 22:45:02
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Microsoft IIS 5.1 and 6 allows remote attackers to spoof the SERVER_NAME variable to bypass security checks and conduct various attacks via a GET request with an http://localhost URI, which makes it appear as if the request is coming from localhost.