VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2008-5044
CVSS score4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.68%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-11-12
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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 while certain other desktop activity is occurring.
Weakness classification
- CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')