CVE-2003-1544
Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows...
Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
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Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.
- Record
CVE-2003-1544- CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C - Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.
- Record
CVE-2003-1544- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2003-1534 No score
Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.
- Record
EUVD-2003-1534- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-5wrj-fg88-pmg2 No score
Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows...
Unrestricted critical resource lock in Terminal Services for Windows 2000 before SP4 and Windows XP allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (reboot) by obtaining a read lock on msgina.dll, which prevents msgina.dll from being loaded.
- Record
GHSA-5wrj-fg88-pmg2- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2003-1544 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) in Microsoft Windows 2000, published December 31, 2003. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 17.3%, the 97th percentile. No source names a fixed version.