CVE-2004-0116: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 37.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An Activation function in the RPCSS Service involved with DCOM activation for Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an activation request with a large length field.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2004-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.