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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-1999-0281 json

Denial of service in IIS using long URLs.

published 1997-06-01 29 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0281

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.8%
EPSS 12.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Denial of service in IIS using long URLs.

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-20802)

Exploit prediction

12.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20802 Microsoft IIS 2.0/3.0 - Long URL Denial of Service dos, 1997-06-21

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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