CVE-2000-1003

Windows 95 vulnerability

CVSS

2.6

EPSS

12.5%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

NETBIOS client in Windows 95 and Windows 98 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by changing a file sharing service to return an unknown driver type, which causes the client to crash.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Windows 95

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2000-12-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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