CVE-2001-0345: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Windows 2000 telnet service allows attackers to prevent idle Telnet sessions from timing out, causing a denial of service by creating a large number of idle sessions.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version

Published 2001-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.