CVE-2001-0147

Windows 2000 vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

6.2%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in Windows 2000 event viewer snap-in allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed field that is improperly handled during the detailed view of event records.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Windows 2000

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published

2001-05-03

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 6.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Microsoft Windows 2000 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2001-0147.
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