TI-2005-04103 Aliases CVE-2005-4360 GHSA-5jvw-5r9c-59q7

The URL parser in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 on Windows XP…

HIGH 76CWE-252Published 2005-12-20 · Updated 2024-08-07

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: — Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · Complete · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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).

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.86729 99th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:5.1:::::::*	5.1	Vulnerable	Microsoft
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:-:sp2:::professional::-:	not specified by NVD	Running on	Microsoft

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.1 Vulnerable ·Microsoft
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:-:sp2:*:*:professional:*:-:* Versions not specified by NVD Running on ·Microsoft

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2005-4360
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5jvw-5r9c-59q7

References

Exploit 1

http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2005/12/microsoft-iis-remote-dos-dll-url.html

Patch 1

MS07-041

Advisory 5

Other 1

21805

TI-2017-04947 Buffer overflow in the ScStoragePathFromUrl function in the WebDAV service in Internet… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2010-03770 Heap-based buffer overflow in the TELNET_STREAM_CONTEXT::OnSendData function in… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
TI-2007-02725 The "hit-highlighting" functionality in webhits.dll in Microsoft Internet Information… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
TI-2009-01456 The WebDAV extension in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 and 6.0 allows… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
TI-2009-01064 The WebDAV extension in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 on Windows 2000… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
TI-2002-00075 Buffer overflow in the chunked encoding transfer mechanism in Internet Information Server… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5

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Sources

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