CVE-2005-2118: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 47.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Windows Shell for Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted shortcut (.lnk) file with long font properties that lead to a buffer overflow when the user views the file's properties using Windows Explorer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2122.

Affected products

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

Published 2005-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.