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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2002-0597

LANMAN service on Microsoft Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU/memory exhaustion) via a stream of malformed data to microsoft-ds port 445.

EXPLOIT ×2 ✓MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 46.6%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 46.6%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

LANMAN service on Microsoft Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU/memory exhaustion) via a stream of malformed data to microsoft-ds port 445.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
46.57% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits
2 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 17 April 2002
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
microsoft/windows 2000
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%25%50%26 October 2026: 46.57%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 46.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (2)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-21389source ↗Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Lanman Denial of Service (2)windows · ch0wndos3 January 2003yes
EDB-21388source ↗Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Lanman Denial of Service (1)windows · Daniel Nystromdos17 April 2002yes

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.