HTML Character Escaping Bypass Vulnerability in eEye SecureIIS

CVE-2001-0523 · HIGH Severity

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

eEye SecureIIS versions 1.0.3 and earlier allows a remote attacker to bypass filtering of requests made to SecureIIS by escaping HTML characters within the request, which could allow a remote attacker to use restricted variables and perform directory traversal attacks on vulnerable programs that would otherwise be protected.

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