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Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 18 Nov 2014 Release Date: 12 Nov 2014 4273 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Operating Systems - Windows OS

TYPE: Windows OS

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Information Services (IIS) that is caused when incoming web requests are not properly compared against the "IP and domain restriction" filtering list. Microsoft received information about this vulnerability through coordinated vulnerability disclosure. When this security bulletin was issued, Microsoft had not received any information to indicate that this vulnerability had been publicly used to attack customers. The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how inbound web requests are compared to the allow/deny list maintained by the "IP and domain restrictions" component.


Impact

  • Security Restriction Bypass

System / Technologies affected

  • Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
  • Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2

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