CVE-2003-0231: Microsoft Data Engine

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 36.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft SQL Server 7, 2000, and MSDE allows local or remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via a long request to a named pipe.

Affected products

• Microsoft Data Engine: version 1.0 only
• Microsoft SQL Server: version 7.0 only; version 2000 only

Published 2003-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.