CVE-2003-0718 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in IIS via crafted PROPFIND requests, requiring patches for affected servers.
- 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-2003-0718?
CVE-2003-0718 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server, published on 16 Oct 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The WebDAV Message Handler for Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU exhaustion, application crash) via a PROPFIND request with an XML message containing XML elements with a large number of attributes.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0718?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services.
How do I fix CVE-2003-0718?
No fix has been published for CVE-2003-0718 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-2003-0718 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2003-0718 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-qfq7-2r89-r328.