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CVE-2004-1080

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."

Published: Jan 10, 2005 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (37)

Vendor Product Version
microsoft windows_2000 *
microsoft windows_2000 *
microsoft windows_2000 *
microsoft windows_2000 *
microsoft windows_2000 *
microsoft windows_2003_server 2000
microsoft windows_2003_server 2003
microsoft windows_2003_server enterprise
microsoft windows_2003_server enterprise_64-bit
microsoft windows_2003_server r2
microsoft windows_2003_server r2
microsoft windows_2003_server standard
microsoft windows_2003_server web
microsoft windows_nt 4.0
microsoft windows_nt 4.0
microsoft windows_nt 4.0
microsoft windows_nt 4.0
microsoft windows_nt 4.0
microsoft windows_nt 4.0
microsoft windows_nt 4.0

…and 17 more

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-438w-xvxp-m9c6

The WINS service (wins.exe) on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 10.0 / 10
EPSS Score 79.80%

Top 0% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 73.9 / 100

Data Sources

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