CVE-2000-0980: Microsoft Windows 95

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 13.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NMPI (Name Management Protocol on IPX) listener in Microsoft NWLink does not properly filter packets from a broadcast address, which allows remote attackers to cause a broadcast storm and flood the network.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 95: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version
• Microsoft Windows Me: any version

Published 2000-12-19. Last modified 2026-09-23.