Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 98
CVE-2001-1055
The Microsoft Windows network stack allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of malformed ARP request packets with random source IP and MAC addresses, as demonstrated by ARPNuke.
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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: 0.223 (97.6th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.223 · newest: 0.223 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200323 (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6924 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/3113 (Exploit, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)