{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2008-4301", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "** DISPUTED ** 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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "20080924 Internet Information Service remote set password", "refsource": "BUGTRAQ", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496694/100/0/threaded" }, { "name": "20081002 Fwd: Internet Information Service remote set password", "refsource": "VIM", "url": "http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-October/002081.html" }, { "name": "iis-iisext-weak-security(45587)", "refsource": "XF", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45587" } ] } }