CVE-2005-4360
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).
Published:Dec 20, 2005
Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
EPS:Dec 20, 2005
EPSS Score:0.77063
CVSS Score:7.8
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Internet Information Services
Microsoft
Internet Information Services
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows Xp
Microsoft
Windows Xp
Exploits
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
