Internet Information Services Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2007-2815 - Vulnerability Database

Internet Information Services Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2007-2815

Critical
Reference: CVE-2007-2815
Title: Internet Information Services Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability
Overview:

The quothit-highlightingquot functionality in webhits.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server 5.0 only uses Windows NT ACL configuration which allows remote attackers to bypass NTLM and basic authentication mechanisms and access private web directories via the CiWebhitsfile parameter to null.htw.