TI-2007-02725 Aliases CVE-2007-2815 GHSA-86f6-f7gx-x5qm

The "hit-highlighting" functionality in webhits.dll in Microsoft Internet Information…

HIGH 81CWE-264Published 2007-05-22 · Updated 2024-08-07

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: — Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Complete · Complete · Complete
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-264.

Summary

The "hit-highlighting" functionality in webhits.dll in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server 5.0 only uses Windows NT ACL configuration, which allows remote attackers to bypass NTLM and basic authentication mechanisms and access private web directories via the CiWebhitsfile parameter to null.htw.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.7335 99th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:5.0:::::::*	5.0	Vulnerable	Microsoft

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.0 Vulnerable ·Microsoft

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2007-2815
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-86f6-f7gx-x5qm

References

Advisory 2

Other 1

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TI-2017-04947 Buffer overflow in the ScStoragePathFromUrl function in the WebDAV service in Internet… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2010-03770 Heap-based buffer overflow in the TELNET_STREAM_CONTEXT::OnSendData function in… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
TI-2009-01456 The WebDAV extension in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 and 6.0 allows… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
TI-2009-01064 The WebDAV extension in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 on Windows 2000… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
TI-2005-04103 The URL parser in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 on Windows XP… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.8
TI-2002-00075 Buffer overflow in the chunked encoding transfer mechanism in Internet Information Server… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5

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Sources

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