CVE-2000-0258 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Microsoft IIS by sending URLs with many escaped characters.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2000-0258?
CVE-2000-0258 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server, published on 2 Jun 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IIS 4.0 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending many URLs with a large number of escaped characters, aka the "Myriad Escaped Characters" Vulnerability.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0258?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services.
How do I fix CVE-2000-0258?
No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0258 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2000-0258 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-0258 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Information Server
- CVE-2008-0075 Code injection in n/a
- CVE-1999-1376 Buffer overflow in fpcount.exe in IIS 4.0 with FrontPage Server Extensions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
- CVE-1999-0407 By default, IIS 4.0 has a virtual directory /IISADMPWD which contains files that can be used as proxies for brute force password attacks, or
- CVE-1999-0874 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2009-3023 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f3v5-8j87-jjrf.