CVE-2005-3981: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NOTE: this issue has been disputed by third parties. Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, and 2003 allows local users to kill a writable process by using the CreateRemoteThread function with certain arguments on a process that has been opened using the OpenProcess function, possibly involving an invalid address for the start routine. NOTE: followup posts have disputed this issue, saying that if a user already has privileges to write to a process, then other functions could be called or the process could be terminated using PROCESS_TERMINATE

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version enterprise only; version r2 only; version standard only; version web only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2005-12-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.