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CVE-2005-4360 Detail

Description

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).


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/bugtraq/2007/07/msg00254.html CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2005/12/microsoft-iis-remote-dos-dll-url.html CVE, MITRE Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/18106 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/271 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Dec/1015376.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.osvdb.org/21805 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419707/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15921 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-191A.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2963 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-041 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1703 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-4360
NVD Published Date:
12/19/2005
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
MITRE