CVE-2003-0825: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 12.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) for Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and possibly Windows NT and Server 2000, does not properly validate the length of certain packets, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: any version; version enterprise only; version enterprise_64-bit only; version r2 only; version standard only; version web only
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only

Published 2004-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.