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CVE-2001-0877

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2001-12-20 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) on Windows 98, 98SE, ME, and XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) a spoofed SSDP advertisement that causes the client to connect to a service on another machine that generates a large amount of traffic (e.g., chargen), or (2) via a spoofed SSDP announcement to broadcast or multicast addresses, which could cause all UPnP clients to send traffic to a single target system.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows MeMicrosoft Windows 98Microsoft Windows 98SeMicrosoft Windows Xp

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References