PT-2000-1240 · Microsoft · Iis

Published 2000-04-12 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2000-0258

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IIS versions 4.0 through 5.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending many URLs with a large number of escaped characters.

Recommendations For IIS versions 4.0 through 5.0, consider restricting the number of escaped characters allowed in URLs to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0258

Affected Products

Iis

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0258 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/1101 · Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-023 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-0258 · Note