CVE-2005-4360
HIGHEPSS 100th pctlDescription
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).
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/bugtraq/2007/07/msg00254.html
- http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2005/12/microsoft-iis-remote-dos-dll-url.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18106
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/271
- http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Dec/1015376.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/21805
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419707/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15921
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-191A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2963
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-041
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1703
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