CVE-2003-0812: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 82.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in a logging function for Windows Workstation Service (WKSSVC.DLL) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via RPC calls that cause long entries to be written to a debug log file ("NetSetup.LOG"), as demonstrated using the NetAddAlternateComputerName API.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2003-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.