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CVE-2000-0024

Medium CVSS 6.4

Published 1999-12-21 ยท last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-0024, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

IIS does not properly canonicalize URLs, potentially allowing remote attackers to bypass access restrictions in third-party software via escape characters, aka the "Escape Character Parsing" vulnerability.

Sources

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N