CVE-2004-0799: Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The HTTP daemon in Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 8.03 and 8.03 Hotfix 1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via a GET request containing an MS-DOS device name, as demonstrated using "prn.htm".

Affected products

• Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold: version 8.03_hotfix_1 only
• Progress WhatsUp Gold: version 7.0 only; version 7.03 only; version 7.04 only; version 8.0 only; version 8.01 only; version 8.03 only

Published 2004-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.