CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0168

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2000-03-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-03-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Microsoft Windows 9x operating systems allow an attacker to cause a denial of service via a pathname that includes file device names, aka the "DOS Device in Path Name" vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 95 • microsoft windows 98 • microsoft windows 98se

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-67 Improper Handling of Windows Device Names weakness

References