CVE-2003-0718: Microsoft Internet Information Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 87.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Information Services: version 5.0 only

Published 2004-11-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.