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CVE-2003-0813

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 17.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-367

Description

A multi-threaded race condition in the Windows RPC DCOM functionality with the MS03-039 patch installed allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or reboot) by causing two threads to process the same RPC request, which causes one thread to use memory after it has been freed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0352 (Blaster/Nachi), CVE-2003-0715, and CVE-2003-0528, and as demonstrated by certain exploits against those vulnerabilities.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 98: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0-sp6a
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-October/011870.html
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-October/011886.html
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-October/011901.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106579825211708&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106588827513795&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=106580303918155&w=2
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/547820
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8811
• http://www.securitylab.ru/_exploits/rpc2.c.txt
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-104A.html
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/155
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-012

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