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CVE-2003-1544
Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to…
Medium6.8EPSS 17.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.3% · top 2.9% 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: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- 815225 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSKBx_transferred
- win2k-terminal-msgina-dos(11141) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1005986 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 3654 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 7959 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 6672 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- win2k-terminal-msgina-permissions(11816) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20030123 DoS attack on Windows 2000 Terminal Server (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20030124 RE: DoS attack on Windows 2000 Terminal Server (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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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