CVE-2004-0899: Microsoft Windows Nt

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 72.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DHCP Server service for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server and Terminal Server Edition, with DHCP logging enabled, does not properly validate the length of certain messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed DHCP message, aka "Logging Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only

Published 2005-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.