CVE-2002-0020: Microsoft Interix

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 16.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in telnet server in Windows 2000 and Interix 2.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed protocol options.

Affected products

• Microsoft Interix: version 2.2 only
• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version

Published 2002-03-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.