CVE-2003-0813: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A multi-threaded race condition in the Windows RPC DCOM functionality with the MS03-039 patch installed allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or reboot) by causing two threads to process the same RPC request, which causes one thread to use memory after it has been freed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0352 (Blaster/Nachi), CVE-2003-0715, and CVE-2003-0528, and as demonstrated by certain exploits against those vulnerabilities.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: affected versions not specified

Published 2003-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.