CVE-2001-1347 Privilege escalation in n/a

Medium 4.6 Published Updated

Local attackers can cause denial of service and potentially escalate privileges by exploiting hardware breakpoint handling in Windows 2000.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2001-1347?

CVE-2001-1347 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 1 Sep 2004. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Windows 2000 allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges by setting a hardware breakpoint that is handled using global debug registers, which could cause other processes to terminate due to an exception, and allow hijacking of resources such as named pipes.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-1347?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2001-1347?

No fix has been published for CVE-2001-1347 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2001-1347 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2001-1347 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-r82g-mccm-57gx.

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