CVE-2010-0025

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
59.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: April 14, 2010 (5874 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The SMTP component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, and Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Exchange Server 2000 SP3, does not properly allocate memory for SMTP command replies, which allows remote attackers to read fragments of e-mail messages by sending a series of invalid commands and then sending a STARTTLS command, aka "SMTP Memory Allocation Vulnerability."

CWE

CWE-200

Affected Products

microsoft windows 2000microsoft windows xpmicrosoft windows 2003 servermicrosoft windows server 2003microsoft windows server 2008microsoft exchange server

References

🔗 secunia.com 🔗 www.us-cert.gov 🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 oval.cisecurity.org 🔗 secunia.com