CVE-2000-0228

Medium

Published: 17/03/2000(UTC)Updated: 16/06/2026(UTC)Translated: 18/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk

13.68%

96th percentile - higher than 96% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Windows Media License Manager in Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a malformed request that causes the manager to halt.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to disrupt service availability, potentially leading to downtime in media access.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Windows and monitor and filter network traffic to block malformed requests.

Original NVD description (English source)

Microsoft Windows Media License Manager allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a malformed request that causes the manager to halt, aka the "Malformed Media License Request" Vulnerability.