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.
                
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                    Tue, 20 May 2025 18:00:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added | 
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| Description | A denial of service exists in Microsoft IIS Server when the optional request filtering feature improperly handles requests, aka 'Microsoft IIS Server Denial of Service Vulnerability'. | 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. | 
| Title | Microsoft IIS Server Denial of Service Vulnerability | |
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| Metrics | cvssV3_1 
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: microsoft
Published: 2019-06-12T13:49:38
Updated: 2025-05-20T17:49:32.602Z
Reserved: 2018-11-26T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2019-0941
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2019-06-12T14:29:01.667
Modified: 2025-05-20T18:15:30.557
Link: CVE-2019-0941
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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