CVE-1999-0249 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-1999-0249?

CVE-1999-0249 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 4 Feb 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Windows NT RSHSVC program allows remote users to execute arbitrary commands.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-0249?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Nt.

How do I fix CVE-1999-0249?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-0249 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-1999-0249 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-0249 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000

• CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-0232 Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1123 Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2002-0367 Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2010-0269 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7947-8872-rfq5.