Description
Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by flooding Internet Key Exchange (IKE) UDP port 500 with packets that contain a large number of dot characters.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Internet Key Exchange Denial of Service (1) EDB-21171 · dos · Dec 11, 2001 · verified
- Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Internet Key Exchange Denial of Service (2) EDB-21172 · dos · Dec 7, 2001 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- win2k-ike-dos(7667) vdb-entry
- 20011207 UDP DoS attack in Win2k via IKE mailing-list
- 20011211 UDP DoS attack in Win2k via IKE mailing-list
- 3652 vdb-entry