Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000
CVE-2009-1926
Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (TCP outage) via a series of TCP sessions that have pending data and a (1) small or (2) zero receive window size, and remain in the FIN-WAIT-1 or FIN-WAIT-2 state indefinitely, aka "TCP/IP Orphaned Connections Vulnerability."
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.350 (98.4th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.350 · newest: 0.350 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5965 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.recurity-labs.com/content/pub/Microsoft_Windows_CVE-2009-1926
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/36269 (vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/57797 (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-251A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-048 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506331/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)