CVE-2000-0168 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows 95, 98, and 98SE. An attacker can exploit this by including file device names within a pathname, causing the system to become unresponsive. This vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.0, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to achieve a partial denial of service. While not on the KEV catalog and lacking active exploitation reports or significant community discussion, exploit code for this "DOS Device in Path Name" vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_95:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98:*:gold:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98se:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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