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CVE-2003-0605

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 58.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-08-27 · updated 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 products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions

References

• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/006851.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105880332428706&w=2
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-19.html
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-23.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326746
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-039
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1118
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A494
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/006851.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105880332428706&w=2
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-19.html
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-23.html

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