01 Record
CVE-2008-5044
Race condition in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via a multi-threaded application that makes many calls to UnhookWindowsHookEx
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Race condition in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Vista allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via a multi-threaded application that makes many calls to UnhookWindowsHookEx
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.68% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 76.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-11-12 23:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-11-12
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 34ef14577681b2483872933ef0840d88bab23e60b51b50f8fa9104bf44937391
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comwin-unhookwindowshookex-dos(46506)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46506
- www.securityfocus.com32206http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32206
- www.securityfocus.com20081109 BSOD in Win'2k3, Vista x86 and x64 by nonpriviledged userhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498165/100/0/threaded
- securityreason.com4576http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4576
- killprog.comhttp://killprog.com/whk.zip