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CVE-2017-7269 Microsoft IIS

An exploited vulnerability CISA catalogued on 3 November 2021 in Microsoft IIS, and this page follows how many of the Arabian Gulf's sites still announce an affected version with every census.

Exposure today

Catalogued on 3 November 2021

  • 0.4% of the Arabian Gulf's sites announcing a full Microsoft IIS version announce an affected one 2 of 539 announcing a full version Measured on 23 October 2026 by reading the first page of every live domain in the Arabian Gulf, and 10,101 websites answered.

Microsoft Windows Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 which allows remote attackers to execute code via a long header beginning with "If: <http://" in a PROPFIND request.

Each state has its own figure on its own page, never set beside another.

The series

Every census since the index began following this vulnerability, newest first.

  1. 0.4% 23 October 2026 2 of 539 announcing a full version

Affected versions

As NVD gives them, and what each site announces is held against them.

  • Microsoft IIS v = 6.0

The fix is to move Microsoft IIS to a version outside these ranges, or apply what its maker advises, and then stop announcing the version in the site's headers.

CISA set 3 May 2022 as the deadline for US federal agencies to fix it.

How to cite

0.4% of the sites in the Arabian Gulf announcing a full Microsoft IIS version announce one affected by the exploited vulnerability CVE-2017-7269

Source: Gulf Cybersecurity Baseline, readiness index, census of 23 October 2026, https://gbaseline.3li.info/en/readiness/cve-2017-7269/

0.4٪ من مواقع الخليج العربي التي تعلن إصدار Microsoft IIS كاملاً تعلن إصداراً مصاباً بالثغرة المستغلة CVE-2017-7269

المصدر خط الأساس الخليجي للأمن السيبراني مؤشر الاستعدادية بقياس 23 أكتوبر 2026 على https://gbaseline.3li.info/readiness/cve-2017-7269/

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