CVE-2006-0488 — The VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) emulation environment for MS-DOS applications in Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to read the first megabyte of memory and possibly obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by dumper.asm

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The VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) emulation environment for MS-DOS applications in Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to read the first megabyte of memory and possibly obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by dumper.asm

Published Feb 1, 2006

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.11%

Description

The VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) emulation environment for MS-DOS applications in Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 allows local users to read the first megabyte of memory and possibly obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by dumper.asm.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.11% 0.02111

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02111

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.11% (0.02111)	81.13th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.15% (0.02146)	79.64th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.85% (0.00851)	73.31th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00045)	15.90th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 23, 2024	0.04% (0.00045)	13.68th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 22, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	9.52th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00043)	7.51th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.38% (0.01378)	71.84th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Aug 19, 2022	1.38% (0.01378)	70.80th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.29% (0.01290)	65.91th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.29% (0.01290)	41.73th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423169/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24471
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423169/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24471		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 1, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jan 31, 2006

Link CVE-2006-0488

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-0488

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-0488