CVE-2009-2521
Stack consumption vulnerability in the FTP Service in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 through 7.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a list (ls) -R command containing a wildcard that references a subdirectory, followed by a .. (dot dot), aka "IIS FTP Service DoS Vulnerability."
Published:Sep 4, 2009
Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
EPS:Sep 4, 2009
EPSS Score:0.60775
CVSS Score:5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Internet Information Services
Microsoft
Internet Information Services
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
