Microsoft IIS WebDAV XML Message Handler Denial of Service (MS04-030; CVE-2003-0718)

The WebDAV protocol Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is an extension to HTTP/1.1 that provides a capability for web page authoring over HTTP. The Microsoft WebDAV component is provided with Microsoft Internet Information Services Server IIS in order to provide support for WebDAV. Th...

CVE-2003-0718

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...

CVE-2003-0718

CVE-2003-0718 concerns a denial-of-service in the WebDAV XML Message Handler of Microsoft IIS. A crafted PROPFIND request containing a WebDAV XML document with a very large number of attributes can cause IIS to exhaust memory and CPU, potentially rendering the server unresponsive. The vulnerabili...