Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 95
CVE-2000-1039
Various TCP/IP stacks and network applications allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by flooding a target host with TCP connection attempts and completing the TCP/IP handshake without maintaining the connection state on the attacker host, aka the "NAPTHA" class of vulnerabilities. NOTE: this candidate may change significantly as the security community discusses the technical nature of NAPTHA and learns more about the affected applications. This candidate is at a higher level of abstraction than is typical for CVE.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.458 (98.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.458 · newest: 0.458 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-21.html (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_NAPTHA.html (vendor-advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/win2ksecadvice/2000-q4/0105.html (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/2022 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-091 (vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2000-1039?
- CVE-2000-1039 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 95. Published 2001-01-09.
- Is CVE-2000-1039 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.