CVE-2000-1079: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 15.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Interactions between the CIFS Browser Protocol and NetBIOS as implemented in Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000 allow remote attackers to modify dynamic NetBIOS name cache entries via a spoofed Browse Frame Request in a unicast or UDP broadcast datagram.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 95: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only

Published 2000-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.