THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-5758
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-5758

Windows 2000 vulnerability

CVSS
7.2
EPSS
6.3%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
The Graphics Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows 2000 through 2000 SP4 and Windows XP through SP2 maps GDI Kernel structures on a global shared memory section that is mapped with read-only permissions, but can be remapped by other processes as read-write, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and gain privileges by modifying the kernel structures.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Windows 2000
CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2006-11-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, 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 6.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-5758

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Windows 2000 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-5758.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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