CVE-2004-0116 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An Activation function in the RPCSS Service involved with DCOM activation for Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an activation request with a large length field.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.54228.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Microsoft Subscribe	Windows 2000 Subscribe Windows 2003 Server Subscribe Windows Xp Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:r2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::gold::::::*

No data.

No data.

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/11065/
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Apr/1009758.html
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-115.shtml
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20040413A.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/417052
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10127
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-104A.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-012
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15708
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A955
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A957
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A958

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-04-16T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:10:03.756Z

Reserved: 2004-02-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2004-0116

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2004-06-01T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2004-0116

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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