CVE-2000-1039: Microsoft Windows 95

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 45.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 95: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version
• Microsoft Windows Me: any version
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only

Published 2001-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.