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CVE-2003-0605
The RPC DCOM interface in Windows 2000 SP3 and SP4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and local attackers to…
High7.5EPSS 58.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The RPC DCOM interface in Windows 2000 SP3 and SP4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and local attackers to use the DoS to hijack the epmapper pipe to gain privileges, via certain messages to the __RemoteGetClassObject interface that cause a NULL pointer to be passed to the PerformScmStage function.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 58.8% · top 0.9% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- 20030720 Microsoft Windows 2000 RPC DCOM Interface DOS AND Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20030721 Microsoft Windows 2000 RPC DCOM Interface DOS AND Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- CA-2003-23 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:494 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1118 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- CA-2003-19 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- VU#326746 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- MS03-039 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .