CVE-2008-4301: Microsoft Internet Information Services

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 17.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A certain ActiveX control in iisext.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) allows remote attackers to set a password via a string argument to the SetPassword method. NOTE: this issue could not be reproduced by a reliable third party. In addition, the original researcher is unreliable. Therefore the original disclosure is probably erroneous

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Services: affected versions not specified

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