CVE-2002-0736: Microsoft Backoffice

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 31.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft BackOffice 4.0 and 4.5, when configured to be accessible by other systems, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and access the administrative ASP pages via an HTTP request with an authorization type (auth_type) that is not blank.

Affected products

• Microsoft Backoffice: version 4.0 only; version 4.5 only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.