CVE-2005-0551

Windows 2000 vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

20.3%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Stack-based buffer overflow in WINSRV.DLL in the Client Server Runtime System (CSRSS) process of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP SP1 and SP2, and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to gain privileges via a specially-designed application that provides console window information with a long FaceName value.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Windows 2000

CVSS vector

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

Published

2005-05-02

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 20.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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