National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2000-0886
Orirignal release date: 2000-12-19
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    IIS 5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed request for an executable file whose name is appended with operating system commands, aka the "Web Server File Request Parsing" vulnerability.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: local,remote
    Authentication: input
    Impact Type: sec_prot other="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    IIS (Microsoft)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-0886