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CVE-2004-0899
The DHCP Server service for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server and Terminal Server Edition, with DHCP logging enabled, does not properly…
Medium5.0EPSS 72.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The DHCP Server service for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server and Terminal Server Edition, with DHCP logging enabled, does not properly validate the length of certain messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed DHCP message, aka "Logging Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 72.6% · top 0.6% 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 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- winnt-dhcp-machinename-dos(18341) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4282 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2280 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MS04-042 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_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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