CVE-2005-1218: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 57.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Microsoft Windows kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version datacenter_64-bit only; version enterprise only; version enterprise_64-bit only; version r2 only; version standard only; version standard_64-bit only; …
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2005-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.