CVE-2005-4360

Exp

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).

Published: 2005-12-20 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2005-4360 is rated High Exploit Risk (82.2/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 78.42%, 99th percentile). 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.36% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2005-4360

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
1377 exploit_db edb 2005-12-19 Exploit-DB ↗
1376 exploit_db edb 2005-12-19 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-4360

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-17 77.06% 78.42% +1.36%
2 2025-12-28 73.13% 77.06% +3.94%
3 2025-12-27 — 73.13% —

Full EPSS history (21 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-4360

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.8 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 6.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2005-4360

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-4360

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
microsoft internet_information_services 5.1 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_information_services:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-4360

URL Tags
http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/bugtraq/2007/07/msg00254.html Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2005/12/microsoft-iis-remote-dos-dll-url.html Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18106 Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/271 Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Dec/1015376.html Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.osvdb.org/21805 Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419707/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15921 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-191A.html Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2963 Vendor Advisory
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-041 Patch Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1703 Third Party Advisory
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