What You Should Know About a Reported Vulnerability in Microsoft ASP.NET
Published: October 5, 2004 | Updated: October 7, 2004
Microsoft is continuing to investigate a reported vulnerability in Microsoft ASP.NET. Reports have indicated that an attacker could send specially crafted requests to a Web server running ASP.NET applications and bypass forms based authentication or Windows authorization configurations, and potentially view secured content without providing the proper credentials. Our initial investigation has revealed that all versions of ASP.NET could be affected, independent of the installed IIS version or IIS components.
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