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CVE-2000-0884

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.

Published: Dec 19, 2000 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (2)

Vendor Product Version
microsoft internet_information_server 4.0
microsoft internet_information_services 5.0

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-3gpv-hgg9-gfg5

IIS 4.0 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to read documents outside of the web root, and possibly...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 7.5 / 10
EPSS Score 70.55%

Top 1% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 61.2 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub