CVE-2001-0540: Microsoft Terminal Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 71.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in Terminal servers in Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of malformed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests to port 3389.

Affected products

Published 2001-10-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.