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CVE-2001-0540

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 71.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in Terminal servers in Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of malformed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests to port 3389.

Affected products

• Microsoft Terminal Server: all versions

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3099
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-040
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6912
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3099
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-040
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6912

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