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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2004-1080 in the critical feed json

The WINS service (wins.exe) on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to wri…

published 2004-12-01 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-1078

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
79.8%
EPSS 79.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

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."

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/wins/ms04_045_wins)

Exploit prediction

79.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.