CVE-2002-0072

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
33.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: April 22, 2002 (8788 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The w3svc.dll ISAPI filter in Front Page Server Extensions and ASP.NET for Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1 does not properly handle the error condition when a long URL is provided, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) when the URL parser accesses a null pointer.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet information servermicrosoft internet information services

References

🔗 marc.info 🔗 www.cert.org 🔗 www.cisco.com 🔗 www.iss.net 🔗 www.kb.cert.org