Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
This old IIS issue describes a local denial-of-service condition triggered through invalid regular expressions in VBScript inside an ASP page. The sources do not name affected IIS versions, a vendor patch, or active exploitation. Business urgency depends on whether legacy IIS with classic ASP and local script authorship still exists.
Executive priority
Prioritize as legacy risk discovery, not an emergency, unless critical systems still rely on old IIS/ASP with delegated local publishing rights.
Technical view
CVE-2000-0115 reports that IIS can be made unavailable by local users using invalid regular expressions in a VBScript-based ASP page. The CVE data lacks CVSS, CWE, CPEs, affected versions, and remediation detail. KEV status is false in the provided bundle.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most plausible on legacy Microsoft IIS systems running classic ASP where local or delegated users can create or modify ASP/VBScript pages.
Exploitation context
The bundle does not show active exploitation, weaponized public exploitation, or KEV listing. The issue appears local-authenticated or local-authoring in nature, not unauthenticated remote exposure based on the provided description.
Researcher notes
The record is sparse. Avoid assuming specific IIS versions, patch identifiers, or remote exploitability. The key validation question is whether an attacker can place or run ASP/VBScript locally on an affected IIS host.
Mitigation direction
- Inventory IIS systems that still run classic ASP or VBScript.
- Restrict ASP authoring rights to trusted administrators only.
- Check Microsoft or vendor archival guidance for applicable updates.
- Isolate unsupported legacy IIS systems from critical services.
- Plan retirement or modernization of classic ASP workloads.
Validation and detection
- Identify IIS hosts with classic ASP enabled.
- Review who can write or deploy ASP pages locally.
- Check historical incident logs for IIS crashes or service restarts.
- Confirm patch and support status for each IIS host.
- Document compensating controls where updates are unavailable.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=94881904724731&w=2CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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