High · published December 19, 2000
CVSS calls it high at 7.5. It sits in the 99.2th percentile for exploit probability.
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.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| microsoft/internet_information_server | all versions | — |
| microsoft/internet_information_services | all versions | — |