CVE-2000-0413: Microsoft Frontpage

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 43.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The shtml.exe program in the FrontPage extensions package of IIS 4.0 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to determine the physical path of HTML, HTM, ASP, and SHTML files by requesting a file that does not exist, which generates an error message that reveals the path.

Affected products

• Microsoft Frontpage: any version
• Microsoft Internet Information Server: version 4.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Information Services: version 5.0 only

Published 2000-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.