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PUBLISHED DATE: December 31, 2002CVE-2002-2081:
Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVSS:
5
EPSS:
1497.20%
Exploitability:
10
In KEV:
No
Description

cphost.dll in Microsoft Site Server 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via an HTTP POST of a file with a long TargetURL parameter, which causes Site Server to abort and leaves the uploaded file in c:\temp.

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