THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2003-0813
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2003-0813

Windows 2000 vulnerability

CVSS
5.1
EPSS
15.3%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
A multi-threaded race condition in the Windows RPC DCOM functionality with the MS03-039 patch installed allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or reboot) by causing two threads to process the same RPC request, which causes one thread to use memory after it has been freed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0352 (Blaster/Nachi), CVE-2003-0715, and CVE-2003-0528, and as demonstrated by certain exploits against those vulnerabilities.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Windows 2000
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Published
2003-11-17

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 confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 15.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2003-0813

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Windows 2000 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2003-0813.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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