CVE-2001-1451

Windows 2000 vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

27.9%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Memory leak in the SNMP LAN Manager (LANMAN) MIB extension for Microsoft Windows 2000 before SP3, when the Print Spooler is not running, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of GET or GETNEXT requests.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Windows 2000

CVSS vector

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

Published

2002-10-22

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 27.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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