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CVE-2005-4360
The URL parser in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 on Windows XP Professional SP2 allows remote attackers to execute…
High7.8EPSS 86.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The URL parser in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 on Windows XP Professional SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via multiple requests to ".dll" followed by arguments such as "~0" through "~9", which causes ntdll.dll to produce a return value that is not correctly handled by IIS, as demonstrated using "/_vti_bin/.dll/*/~0". NOTE: the consequence was originally believed to be only a denial of service (application crash and reboot).
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 86.7% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (12)
- SSRT071446 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 20051216 Microsoft IIS Remote Denial of Service (DoS) .DLL Url exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1703 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 271 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 1015376 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 21805 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2005/12/microsoft-iis-remote-dos-dll-url.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2005-2963 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MS07-041 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 15921 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- TA07-191A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 18106 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)
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