CVE-2000-0408 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Microsoft IIS by sending a long, complex URL with many file extensions.
- 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-2000-0408?
CVE-2000-0408 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server, published on 12 Jul 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IIS 4.05 and 5.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long, complex URL that appears to contain a large number of file extensions, aka the "Malformed Extension Data in URL" vulnerability.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0408?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services.
How do I fix CVE-2000-0408?
No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0408 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-2000-0408 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2000-0408 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
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-wx3j-8h4r-qj57.