CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0884

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

IIS 4.0 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to read documents outside of the web root and possibly execute arbitrary commands via malformed URLs that contain UNICODE encoded characters.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to the exposure of sensitive data and allow attackers to execute commands remotely, posing a serious security threat to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to the latest version of IIS and implement appropriate security rules to block access to unauthorized resources.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

IIS 4.0 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to read documents outside of the web root, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via malformed URLs that contain UNICODE encoded characters, aka the "Web Server Folder Traversal" vulnerability.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS