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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2006-1364 in the critical feed json

Microsoft w3wp (aka w3wp.exe) does not properly handle when the AspCompat directive is not used when referencing COM components in ASP.NET,…

published 2006-03-23 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-1368

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
58.7%
EPSS 58.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Microsoft w3wp (aka w3wp.exe) does not properly handle when the AspCompat directive is not used when referencing COM components in ASP.NET, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or crash) by repeatedly requesting each of several documents that refer to COM components, or are restricted documents located under the ASP.NET application path.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-1601)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

58.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-1601 ASP.NET w3wp - COM Components Remote Crash dos, 2006-03-22
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17188 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securiteam.com http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5KP0O0KI0Y.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.