CVE-2010-4562: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 14.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Windows 2008, 7, Vista, 2003, 2000, and XP, when using IPv6, allows remote attackers to determine whether a host is sniffing the network by sending an ICMPv6 Echo Request to a multicast address and determining whether an Echo Reply is sent, as demonstrated by thcping. NOTE: due to a typo, some sources map CVE-2010-4562 to a ProFTPd mod_sql vulnerability, but that issue is covered by CVE-2010-4652.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: any version
• Microsoft Windows 7: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Vista: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2012-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.