CVE-2001-0324: Microsoft Windows 2000

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 14.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Windows 98 and Windows 2000 Java clients allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a Java applet that opens a large number of UDP sockets, which prevents the host from establishing any additional UDP connections, and possibly causes a crash.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version

Published 2001-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.