CVE-2002-0079: Microsoft Internet Information Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 77.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the chunked encoding transfer mechanism in Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0 Active Server Pages allows attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: version 4.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Information Services: version 5.0 only

Published 2002-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.