Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-4669

Title: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2010-4669

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Jan 07, 2011

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

29.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-4669: The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and system hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different source addresses, as demonstrated by the flood_router6 program in the thc-ipv6 package.

Impacted Vendors

microsoft 5

Reference Links

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3 http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64583 http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3 http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64583

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-4669 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

GitHub https://github.com/wrong-commit/CVE-2010-4669

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 07, 2011 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.