CVE-2005-4360

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).

• CWE-252

• http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/bugtraq/2007/07/msg00254.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2005/12/microsoft-iis-remote-dos-dll-url.htmlExploit, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18106Exploit, Vendor Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/271Third Party Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Dec/1015376.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.osvdb.org/21805Broken Link
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419707/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15921Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-191A.htmlThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2963Vendor Advisory
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-041Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1703Third Party Advisory
• http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/bugtraq/2007/07/msg00254.htmlIssue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2005/12/microsoft-iis-remote-dos-dll-url.htmlExploit, Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18106Exploit, Vendor Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/271Third Party Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Dec/1015376.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.osvdb.org/21805Broken Link
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419707/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15921Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-191A.htmlThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2963Vendor Advisory
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-041Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1703Third Party Advisory

Published

Dec 20, 2005

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified