UPDATE............again
Administrators following secure configuration best practices should not be at risk to a new, zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS), according to the software giant. A senior security program manager at Microsoft said Sunday night in a blog post that the company is investigating reports of a flaw in the IIS web server but is unaware of any active attacks. He said that for an attack to occur, IIS must be in a “nondefault, unsafe configuration,” and anintruder would have to be authenticated with privileges to execute commands that do not
comply with Microsoft guidance. “Customers using out-of-the-box configurationsand who follow security best practices are at reduced risk of being impacted by issues like this,” he said. A handler posting on the SANS Internet Storm Center site said Sunday that administrators still must be careful because they could unknowingly be running a vulnerable web server due to a webmaster’s mistake.
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New IIS flaw deemed low risk in proper configurations - SC Magazine US