CVE•Published 2000-12-19•Modified 2026-09-23•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2000-0884Microsoft · Internet_information_server
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
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EPSS percentile
99
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 1% of all CVEs
Description
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.
Timeline
Published 2000-12-19
Modified 2026-09-23
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag12,571 hosts
vuln:CVE-2000-0884Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Microsoft Internet Information Server" version:"4.0"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Internet Information Server"HTTP body or banner mentions "Internet Information Server" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2000-0884Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2000-0884Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2000-0884Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2000-0884GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2000-0884" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.