CVE Catalog

CVE-2003-0605

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can remotely crash the system or gain local privileges, potentially leading to serious security breaches within the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the system to the latest version and apply relevant security patches to minimize the risk associated with this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS