Windows NT Service Control Manager (SCM) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed argument in a resource enumer…

published 2000-01-04 26 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0961

cvss: 5.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 23.2%; EPSS 23.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits: 2; Exploit-DB

Windows NT Service Control Manager (SCM) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed argument in a resource enumeration request.

Timeline

1999-10-31 First public exploit (EDB-19578)
2000-01-04 Published

Exploit prediction

23.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

EDB-19578 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4/SP5/SP6 - 'Services.exe' Denial of Service (2) dos, 1999-10-31
EDB-19577 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4/SP5/SP6 - 'Services.exe' Denial of Service (1) dos, 1999-10-31

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

support.microsoft.com /default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ246045
vendor-advisory
docs.microsoft.com /en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1999/ms99-055
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-1999-0980
NVD CVE-1999-0980

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Summary