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CVE-2019-0941

A denial of service exists in Microsoft IIS Server when the optional request filtering feature improperly handles requests.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MicrosoftWindows 10
All versions
Versions 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809
MicrosoftWindows 7
All versions
MicrosoftWindows 8.1
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Rt 8.1
All versions
MicrosoftWindows Server 2008
All versions
Version r2
MicrosoftWindows Server 2012
All versions
Version r2
MicrosoftWindows Server 2016
All versions
Versions 1803, 1903
MicrosoftWindows Server 2019
All versions

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