CVE-2002-2081

Site Server vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

13.9%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Site Server

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2002-12-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 13.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Microsoft Site Server is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2002-2081.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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