Security Advisory
CVE-2019-0941
4.4
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
A denial of service exists in Microsoft IIS Server when the optional request filtering feature improperly handles requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could perform a temporary denial of service against pages configured to use request filtering.
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted request to a page utilizing request filtering.
The update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way certain requests are processed by the filter.
Published Date
June 12, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory