CVE-2002-0053: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in SNMP agent service in Windows 95/98/98SE, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a malformed management request. NOTE: this candidate may be split or merged with other candidates. This and other PROTOS-related candidates, especially CVE-2002-0012 and CVE-2002-0013, will be updated when more accurate information is available.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 95: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

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