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CVE-2002-0073

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 59.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The FTP service in Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0, 5.0 and 5.1 allows attackers who have established an FTP session to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted status request containing glob characters.

Affected products

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

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0023.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101901273810598&w=2
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-09.html
• http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/Microsoft-IIS-vulnerabilities-MS02-018.shtml
• http://www.digitaloffense.net/msftpd/advisory.txt
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8801.php
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/412203
• http://www.osvdb.org/3328
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4482
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-018
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A24
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A35

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