CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-0941 — A denial of service exists in Microsoft IIS Server when the optional request filtering feature improperly handles requests

High CVSS 7.5

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.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.0)
Published
2019-06-12
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
windows/system
Weaknesses
CWE-19

Affected products

  • microsoft / windows_10
  • microsoft / windows_10 / 1607
  • microsoft / windows_10 / 1703
  • microsoft / windows_10 / 1709
  • microsoft / windows_10 / 1803
  • microsoft / windows_10 / 1809

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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