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CVE-2003-0718

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 87.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2004-11-03 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: 6.0
• Microsoft IIS: 5.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109762641822064&w=2
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-030
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17645
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17656
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1330
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1427
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4767
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109762641822064&w=2
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-030
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17645
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17656
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1330

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