CVE-2004-1080
The WINS service (wins.exe) on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 79.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The WINS service (wins.exe) on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary memory locations and possibly execute arbitrary code via a modified memory pointer in a WINS replication packet to TCP port 42, aka the "Association Context Vulnerability."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- MS04-045 Microsoft WINS Service Memory Overwrite (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/wins/ms04_045_winsRank greatdisclosed 14 Dec 2004
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Microsoft WINS - Service Memory Overwrite (MS04-045) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16359remote, windowspublished 20 Sept 2010Verified
- Microsoft Windows - 'WINS' Remote Buffer Overflow (MS04-045) (3) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 909remote, windowspublished 12 Apr 2005Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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- 2 days later
· 2 days 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 79.8% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
18
- 1012516 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 890710 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSKBx_transferred
- VU#145134 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2541 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 12378 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1549 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/instantanea.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 13328 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- wins-memory-pointer-hijack(18259) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- P-054 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3677 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4831 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20041126 Immunity, Inc Advisor (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 11763 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20041129 Microsoft WINS Server Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_ISSx_transferred
- MS04-045 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4372 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2734 (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-1078 (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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