CVE-2005-4360

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
EPSS Score
77.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
C
Availability
None
Published: December 20, 2005 (7450 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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).

CWE

CWE-252

Affected Products

microsoft internet information services

References

🔗 archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de 🔗 ingehenriksen.blogspot.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 securitytracker.com