CVE-2006-6723

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 37.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The Workstation service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 and XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large maxlen value in an NetrWkstaUserEnum RPC request.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23487
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017441
http://www.eeye.com/Resources/Security-Center/Research/Zero-Day-Tracker/2005/20051116
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5142
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3013
http://secunia.com/advisories/23487
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017441
http://www.eeye.com/Resources/Security-Center/Research/Zero-Day-Tracker/2005/20051116
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5142
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3013

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