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CVE-2000-1079
Interactions between the CIFS Browser Protocol and NetBIOS as implemented in Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000 allow remote attackers…
High7.5EPSS 15.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
Interactions between the CIFS Browser Protocol and NetBIOS as implemented in Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000 allow remote attackers to modify dynamic NetBIOS name cache entries via a spoofed Browse Frame Request in a unicast or UDP broadcast datagram.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 24 years later
· 24 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 15.9% · top 3.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 1620 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20000829 Re: [COVERT-2000-10] Windows NetBIOS Unsolicited Cache Corruption (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
- win-netbios-corrupt-cache(5168) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20000829 Windows NetBIOS Unsolicited Cache Corruption (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_NAIx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1079 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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