CVE-1999-1593

Windows 2000 - Denial of Service and Credential Theft via WINS 1Ch Registration

Title source: llm

Description

Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connectivity loss) or steal credentials via a 1Ch registration that causes WINS to change the domain controller to point to a malicious server. NOTE: this problem may be limited when Windows 95/98 clients are used, or if the primary domain controller becomes unavailable.

References (10)

Core 10

Core References

Broken Link, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_ntbugtraq

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/1998-1999/msg00371.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0271.html

Broken Link, Exploit x_refsource_misc

https://www2.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/win2k/185.php

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2221

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0264.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0298.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0276.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0289.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0274.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jan/0269.html

Scores

EPSS 0.1813

EPSS Percentile 96.8%

Details

CWE

CWE-59

Status published

Products (3)

microsoft/windows_2000

microsoft/windows_95

microsoft/windows_98

Published Jan 15, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026