CVE-2008-5044: Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via a multi-threaded application that makes many calls to UnhookWindowsHookEx while certain other desktop activity is occurring.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: any version
• Microsoft Windows Vista: any version

Published 2008-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.