Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-1055 - Denial of Service vulnerability in Windows ARP

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
microsoft
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2001-07-30
Updated: 2017-10-10

Summary

The Microsoft Windows network stack allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of malformed ARP request packets with random source IP and MAC addresses, as demonstrated by ARPNuke.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Microsoft
2

Exploit-Db

descriptionWindows 98 ARP Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2001-1055. Dos exploit for windows platform
idEDB-ID:21040
last seen2016-02-02
modified2001-07-30
published2001-07-30
reporterPaul Starzetz
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/21040/
titleMicrosoft Windows 98 - ARP Denial of Service Vulnerability

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