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CVE-2000-0884

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 63.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-12-19 · updated 2026-09-23

Description

IIS 4.0 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to read documents outside of the web root, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via malformed URLs that contain UNICODE encoded characters, aka the "Web Server Folder Traversal" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: 4.0
• Microsoft IIS: 5.0

References

• http://www.osvdb.org/436
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1806
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-078
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5377
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A44
• http://www.osvdb.org/436
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1806
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-078
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5377
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A44

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