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CVE-2003-0718
The WebDAV Message Handler for Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
Medium5.0EPSS 87.9%
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The WebDAV Message Handler for Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU exhaustion, application crash) via a PROPFIND request with an XML message containing XML elements with a large number of attributes.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 87.9% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4767 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- iis-webdav-xml-attribute-dos(17645) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- iis-ms04030-patch(17656) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1330 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MS04-030 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20041012 Microsoft IIS 5.x/6.0 WebDAV (XML parser) attribute blowup DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1427 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .