CVE-2001-1347: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Windows 2000 allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges by setting a hardware breakpoint that is handled using global debug registers, which could cause other processes to terminate due to an exception, and allow hijacking of resources such as named pipes.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version

Published 2001-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.