Buffer overflow in telnet server in Windows 2000 and Interix 2.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed protocol op
Buffer overflow in telnet server in Windows 2000 and Interix 2.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed protocol options.
- Published
- Mar 8, 2002
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 16.9% · 97th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
35
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 5 / 30 · 16.9%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| microsoft | interix | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:interix |
| microsoft | windows 2000 | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000 |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- microsoft interix2.2
- microsoft windows 2000all versions
Same product
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Remediation
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Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
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No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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Credits
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- P · data can be read
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- P · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
nvd-primary
Attack context
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References
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/8094.php
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/4061
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-004
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A424
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.