CVE-2010-2731

medium

Published 2010-09-15 · Modified 2026-04-29

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 on Windows XP SP3, when directory-based Basic Authentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and execute ASP files via a crafted request, aka "Directory Authentication Bypass Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-14179 remote windows verified

Soroush Dalili · 2010-07-02

Microsoft IIS 5.0 - Authentication Bypass (MS10-065)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_admin/http/iis_auth_bypass rank 300

MS10-065 Microsoft IIS 5 NTFS Stream Authentication Bypass

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact

Windows Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Not affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.