CVE-2000-0331

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
17.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 5% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: April 20, 2000 (9520 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Buffer overflow in Microsoft command processor (CMD.EXE) for Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows a local user to cause a denial of service via a long environment variable, aka the "Malformed Environment Variable" vulnerability.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft terminal servermicrosoft windows 2000microsoft windows nt

References

🔗 archives.neohapsis.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 archives.neohapsis.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com