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CVE-2003-0605

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2003-08-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows 2000

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References