CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2001-0540
MEDIUMEPSS 99th pctl5.0
CVSS v2
Description
Memory leak in Terminal servers in Windows NT and Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of malformed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) requests to port 3389.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
65.79%probability of exploitation in 30 days
99thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 99% of all known CVEs.
References
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