CVE-2005-2122: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 46.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Windows Shell for Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a shortcut (.lnk) file with long font properties that lead to a buffer overflow in the Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem (CSRSS), a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2118.

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.