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CVE-2004-0210: Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-03-03
• EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2004-07-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

The POSIX component of Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via certain parameters, possibly by modifying message length values and causing a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Microsoft Interix: 2.2
• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0-sp6a

References

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/647436
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-196A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-020
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16590
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2166
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2847
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/647436
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-196A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-020
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16590
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2166
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2847

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