CVE-2003-0605

N/A Unknown
Published: August 27, 2003 Modified: April 16, 2026
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Description

The RPC DCOM interface in Windows 2000 SP3 and SP4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), and local attackers to use the DoS to hijack the epmapper pipe to gain privileges, via certain messages to the __RemoteGetClassObject interface that cause a NULL pointer to be passed to the PerformScmStage function.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/006851.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105880332428706&w=2
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-19.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
US Government Resource
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-23.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
US Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326746
Source: cve@mitre.org
US Government Resource
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-039
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1118
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A494
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/006851.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105880332428706&w=2
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-19.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
US Government Resource
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-23.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
US Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326746
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
US Government Resource
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-039
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1118
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A494
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

16 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
60.6%
98th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

microsoft