CVE-2001-0543

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
8.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 8% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: September 20, 2001 (9002 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Memory leak in NNTP service in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of malformed posts.

CWE

CWE-401

Affected Products

microsoft exchange servermicrosoft windows 2000microsoft windows nt

References

🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 oval.cisecurity.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com