CVE-2001-0348 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2001-0348?

CVE-2001-0348 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 18 Sep 2001. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft Windows 2000 telnet service allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long logon command that contains a backspace.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-0348?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2001-0348?

No fix has been published for CVE-2001-0348 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2001-0348 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2001-0348 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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-whwj-f6f6-552j.