CVE-2003-0605 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2003-0605?

CVE-2003-0605 is a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 29 Jul 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The RPC DCOM interface in Windows 2000 SP3 and SP4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and local attackers to use the DoS to hijack the epmapper pipe to gain privileges, via certain messages to the __RemoteGetClassObject interface that cause a NULL pointer to be passed to the PerformScmStage function.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0605?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2003-0605?

No fix has been published for CVE-2003-0605 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2003-0605 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2003-0605 exists.

Public exploit code: 10 Exploit-DB entries.

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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-fvvx-2crq-42fr.