CVE-2001-1518 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2001-1518?

CVE-2001-1518 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 14 Jul 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

RunAs (runas.exe) in Windows 2000 only creates one session instance at a time, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (RunAs hang) by creating a named pipe session with the authentication server without any request for service. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, however the vendor also presents a scenario in which other users could be affected if running on a Terminal Server. Therefore this is a vulnerability.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-1518?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2001-1518?

No fix has been published for CVE-2001-1518 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-2001-1518 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2001-1518 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-7vj4-8vxm-9cjx.