CVE-2008-4300: Microsoft Internet Information Services

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 13.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A certain ActiveX control in adsiis.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a long string in the second argument to the GetObject method. NOTE: this issue was disclosed by an unreliable researcher, so it might be incorrect.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Services: affected versions not specified

Published 2008-09-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.