RULE(RULE ID:311028)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2014-12-31
Rule Name: Microsoft IIS and PWS Extended Unicode Directory Traversal Vulnerability -5 (CVE-2000-0884)
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Rule Protection Details
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.
Impact: An attacker can obtain sensitive information of the target victim, and do malicious actions to gain profits using the information.
Affected OS: Windows
Reference: MicrosoftSecurityBulletin:ms00-078
SecurityFocusBID:1806
Solutions
Microsoft has released a patch MS00-078 to eliminate the vulnerability. The patch can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-078.asp