CVE-2001-1288: Microsoft Windows 2000

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Windows 2000 and Windows NT allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by executing a command at the command prompt and pressing the F7 and enter keys several times while the command is executing, possibly related to an exception handling error in csrss.exe.

Affected products

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

Published 2001-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.