The local and remote desktop login screens in Microsoft Windows XP before SP2 and 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) by repeatedly using the WinKey+"U" key combination, which causes multiple copies of Windows Utility Manager to be loaded more quickly than they can be closed when the copies detect that another instance is running.

Threat-Mapped Scoring

Score: 1.5

Priority: P4 - Informational (Low)

• S10 – Denial of Service

EPSS

Score: 0.01
Percentile: 0.76028

CVSS Scoring

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