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CVE-2001-0349

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Windows 2000 telnet service creates named pipes with predictable names and does not properly verify them, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by creating a named pipe with the predictable name and associating a malicious program with it, the first of two variants of this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions

References

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/587587
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2849
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-031
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6664
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/587587
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2849
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-031
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6664

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