CVE-2002-1908: Microsoft Internet Information Services

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 13.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft IIS 5.0 and 5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP request with a Host header that contains a large number of "/" (forward slash) characters.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Services: version 5.0 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.