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CVE-2002-0597

46
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0597 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the LANMAN service on Microsoft Windows 2000. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust CPU and memory resources by sending a stream of malformed data to TCP port 445 (microsoft-ds). This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) and is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of Metasploit or Nuclei modules, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
46.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21389 · Jan 3, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4657 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0025.html
online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/268066
PatchVendor Advisory
support.microsoft.com / default.aspx
iss.net / security_center/static/8867.php
Vendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/693099
US Government Resource
osvdb.org / 5179
securityfocus.com / bid/4532
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory