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CVE-2008-5044
Race condition in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via a…
Medium4.0EPSS 1.7%
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- mitre
Description
Race condition in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via a multi-threaded application that makes many calls to UnhookWindowsHookEx while certain other desktop activity is occurring.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- win-unhookwindowshookex-dos(46506) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 32206 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20081109 BSOD in Win'2k3, Vista x86 and x64 by nonpriviledged user (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 4576 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://killprog.com/whk.zip (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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