CVE Catalog

CVE-2001-1184

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
3.50%

89th percentile - higher than 89% of all known CVEs

Summary

wrshdsp.exe in Denicomp Winsock RSHD/NT 2.21.00 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via (1) in 2.20.00 and earlier, an invalid port number such as a negative number, which causes a connection attempt to that port and all ports below 1024, and (2) in 2.21.00, a port number of 1024.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could overload the server's CPU, leading to service unavailability.

Recommendation

Upgrade Denicomp Winsock RSHD/NT to the latest version or apply vendor patches. Restrict access to the service to trusted clients only.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

wrshdsp.exe in Denicomp Winsock RSHD/NT 2.21.00 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via (1) in 2.20.00 and earlier, an invalid port number such as a negative number, which causes a connection attempt to that port and all ports below 1024, and (2) in 2.21.00, a port number of 1024.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS