WebDAV Message Handler Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2003-0718 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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