How should we interpret CVSS severity scores?

CVSS estimates technical severity, but it does not automatically equal business risk. Prioritize using context like internet exposure, asset criticality, known exploitation, and whether compensating controls exist. A Medium CVSS on an exposed production system can be more urgent than a Critical on an isolated non-production host.

Vulnerability Database

Q: What is a Vulnerability (CVE) and why does it matter?

A security vulnerability is a weakness in software, hardware, or configuration that can be exploited to compromise confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Many vulnerabilities are tracked as CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), which provide a standardized identifier so teams can coordinate patching, mitigation, and risk assessment across tools and vendors.

Q: What's the difference between a vulnerability, an exploit, and a zero-day?

A vulnerability is the underlying weakness. An exploit is the method or code used to take advantage of it. A zero-day is a vulnerability that is unknown to the vendor or has no publicly available fix when attackers begin using it. Risk increases sharply when exploitation becomes reliable or widespread.

Q: Why do vulnerabilities keep reappearing in our environment?

Recurring findings usually come from incomplete asset discovery, inconsistent patch management, inherited images, and configuration drift. In modern environments, you also need to watch the software supply chain: dependencies, containers, build pipelines, and third-party services can reintroduce the same weakness even after you patch a single host.

Q: How do we prioritize remediation without burning out the team?

Use a repeatable triage model: focus first on externally exposed assets, high-value systems (identity, VPN, email, production), vulnerabilities with known exploits, and issues that enable remote code execution or privilege escalation. Then enforce patch SLAs and track progress so remediation is steady, not reactive.

Q: How can SynScan help reduce vulnerability risk over time?

SynScan combines attack surface monitoring and continuous security auditing to keep your inventory current, flag high-impact vulnerabilities early, and help you turn raw findings into a practical remediation plan.

346,505

Total vulnerabilities in the database

Vulnerabilities for products matching "windows_2003_server"

Found 1 matching product.

You can search for specific versions with /product/windows_2003_server/1.2.3

microsoft / windows_2003_server

1053 vulnerabilities found

Title	Severity	Date	Affected Version
CVE-2007-1205	High	April 10, 2007 4/10/07	== sp2 == sp1 == gold
CVE-2007-1206	High	April 10, 2007 4/10/07	== sp1 == gold == sp2
CVE-2007-1211	High	April 4, 2007 4/4/07	== sp2 == sp1 == gold
CVE-2007-1212	Medium	April 4, 2007 4/4/07	== sp2 == sp1 == gold
CVE-2007-1215	High	April 4, 2007 4/4/07	== sp2 == sp1 == gold
CVE-2007-0038	High	March 30, 2007 3/30/07	== sp2 == sp1 == gold
CVE-2007-1692	High	March 26, 2007 3/26/07	== 2000 == r2
CVE-2007-1537	Low	March 20, 2007 3/20/07	== sp1
CVE-2007-0843	Low	February 23, 2007 2/23/07	*
CVE-2006-1311	High	February 13, 2007 2/13/07	== sp1
CVE-2007-0025	High	February 13, 2007 2/13/07	== 2003-sp2 == xp_sp2 == 2000-sp4
CVE-2007-0026	High	February 13, 2007 2/13/07	== sp1
CVE-2007-0211	High	February 13, 2007 2/13/07	== sp1
CVE-2007-0214	High	February 13, 2007 2/13/07	== 64-bit == itanium == sp1 *
CVE-2006-6901	High	December 31, 2006 12/31/06	== r2
CVE-2006-6902	High	December 31, 2006 12/31/06	== mobile_pocket_pc
CVE-2006-6696	Medium	December 22, 2006 12/22/06	== web-sp1_beta_1 == datacenter_edition-sp1_beta_1 == standard == web == standard-sp1_beta_1 == web-sp1 == sp1 == enterprise_edition-sp1 == standard-sp1 == enterprise_edition-sp1_beta_1 == datacenter_edition == datacenter_edition-sp1
CVE-2006-4702	Medium	December 13, 2006 12/13/06	== sp1 == gold
CVE-2006-5585	High	December 13, 2006 12/13/06	== itanium == r2
CVE-2006-5583	High	December 12, 2006 12/12/06	== xp_sp2 == sp1 == 2000-sp4
CVE-2006-4688	High	November 14, 2006 11/14/06	== sp1
CVE-2006-4689	Medium	November 14, 2006 11/14/06	== sp1
CVE-2006-3445	High	November 14, 2006 11/14/06	== 64-bit == itanium == sp1 == r2
CVE-2006-4696	High	October 10, 2006 10/10/06	== sp1 == r2
CVE-2006-0032	Low	September 12, 2006 9/12/06	== datacenter_edition_itanium == web-sp1_beta_1 == datacenter_edition-sp1_beta_1 == standard == datacenter_edition_itanium-sp1_beta_1 == web == enterprise_64-bit == standard_64-bit == standard-sp1_beta_1 == r2 == datacenter_edition_itanium-sp1 == web-sp1 == sp1 == enterprise_edition_itanium-sp1 == enterprise_edition-sp1 == standard-sp1 == enterprise_edition_itanium == enterprise_edition-sp1_beta_1 == datacenter_edition == datacenter_edition-sp1 == enterprise_edition_itanium-sp1_beta_1
CVE-2006-3873	High	September 12, 2006 9/12/06	== 64-bit == itanium == sp1 == r2
CVE-2006-4495	High	August 31, 2006 8/31/06	== professional-sp3 == datacenter_server-sp2 == professional-sp2 == professional == 2000_server-sp2 == advanced_server-sp2 == advanced_server-sp3 == 2000_server-sp3 == 2000_server == advanced_server-sp1 == datacenter_server == datacenter_server-sp1 == datacenter_server-sp3 == professional-sp1 == advanced_server == advanced_server-sp4 == datacenter_server-sp4 == professional-sp4 == 2000_server-sp1 == 2000_server-sp4
CVE-2006-4071	Low	August 10, 2006 8/10/06	== sp1 == r2
CVE-2006-3439	High	August 9, 2006 8/9/06	== 64-bit == itanium == sp1 == r2
CVE-2006-3440	High	August 9, 2006 8/9/06	== 64-bit == sp1
CVE-2006-3441	High	August 9, 2006 8/9/06	== 64-bit == sp1
CVE-2006-3648	High	August 9, 2006 8/9/06	== sp1 == r2
CVE-2006-3942	High	July 31, 2006 7/31/06	== 64-bit == itanium == sp1 == r2
CVE-2006-3880	Medium	July 27, 2006 7/27/06	== datacenter_edition_64-bit-sp1 == standard == web == datacenter_edition_64-bit == enterprise_64-bit == standard_64-bit == enterprise_edition_64-bit == r2 == web-sp1 == sp1 == enterprise_edition-sp1 == standard-sp1 == datacenter_edition == datacenter_edition-sp1
CVE-2006-1314	High	July 11, 2006 7/11/06	== 64-bit == itanium == sp1 == r2
CVE-2006-3351	Medium	July 6, 2006 7/6/06	== enterprise_edition_64-bit-sp1 == 64-bit == datacenter_edition_64-bit-sp1 == itanium == web-sp1_beta_1 == datacenter_edition-sp1_beta_1 == standard == web == sp1 == enterprise == datacenter_edition_64-bit == enterprise_64-bit == enterprise-sp1_beta_1 == standard_64-bit == datacenter_64-bit-sp1 == enterprise_edition_64-bit == datacenter_edition_64-bit-sp1_beta_1 == datacenter_64-bit-sp1_beta_1 == standard-sp1_beta_1 == r2-sp1 == enterprise_64-bit-sp1 == r2 == 3.1.0.3270 == r2-sp1_beta_1 == web-sp1 == enterprise_edition-sp1 == standard-sp1 == enterprise-sp1 == enterprise_edition_64-bit-sp1_beta_1 == enterprise_edition-sp1_beta_1 == enterprise_64-bit-sp1_beta_1 == datacenter_edition == datacenter_edition-sp1
CVE-2006-1313	Medium	June 13, 2006 6/13/06	== enterprise_edition_64-bit-sp1 == datacenter_edition_64-bit-sp1 == standard == web == datacenter_edition_64-bit == enterprise_64-bit == standard_64-bit == enterprise_edition_64-bit == r2 == web-sp1 == sp1 == enterprise_edition-sp1 == standard-sp1 == datacenter_edition == datacenter_edition-sp1
CVE-2006-2370	High	June 13, 2006 6/13/06	== enterprise_edition_64-bit-sp1 == datacenter_edition_64-bit-sp1 == standard == web == datacenter_edition_64-bit == enterprise_64-bit == standard_64-bit == enterprise_edition_64-bit == r2 == web-sp1 == sp1 == enterprise_edition-sp1 == standard-sp1 == datacenter_edition == datacenter_edition-sp1
CVE-2006-2371	High	June 13, 2006 6/13/06	== enterprise_edition_64-bit-sp1 == datacenter_edition_64-bit-sp1 == standard == web == datacenter_edition_64-bit == enterprise_64-bit == standard_64-bit == enterprise_edition_64-bit == r2 == web-sp1 == sp1 == enterprise_edition-sp1 == standard-sp1 == datacenter_edition == datacenter_edition-sp1
CVE-2006-2374	Medium	June 13, 2006 6/13/06	== --sp1
CVE-2006-2378	Medium	June 13, 2006 6/13/06	== enterprise_edition_64-bit-sp1 == datacenter_edition_64-bit-sp1 == standard == web == datacenter_edition_64-bit == enterprise_64-bit == standard_64-bit == enterprise_edition_64-bit == r2 == web-sp1 == sp1 == enterprise_edition-sp1 == standard-sp1 == datacenter_edition == datacenter_edition-sp1
CVE-2006-2379	High	June 13, 2006 6/13/06	== web == enterprise == enterprise_64-bit == standard_64-bit == datacenter_64-bit-sp1 == r2-sp1 == enterprise_64-bit-sp1 == r2 == web-sp1 == standard-sp1 == enterprise-sp1 == standard
CVE-2006-0034	High	May 10, 2006 5/10/06	== web == enterprise == enterprise_64-bit == r2 == standard
CVE-2006-1184	Medium	May 10, 2006 5/10/06	== web == enterprise == enterprise_64-bit == r2 == standard
CVE-2006-0012	Medium	April 12, 2006 4/12/06	== web == enterprise == enterprise_64-bit == standard_64-bit == datacenter_64-bit-sp1 == r2-sp1 == enterprise_64-bit-sp1 == r2 == web-sp1 == standard-sp1 == enterprise-sp1 == standard
CVE-2006-1591	Medium	April 3, 2006 4/3/06	== web == enterprise == r2-sp1 == web-sp1 == standard-sp1 == enterprise-sp1 == standard == r2
CVE-2006-0988	High	March 3, 2006 3/3/06	== r2
CVE-2006-0006	High	February 14, 2006 2/14/06	== r2
CVE-2006-0005	High	February 14, 2006 2/14/06	== web_edition == standard == datacenter_edition_64-bit == standard_64-bit == enterprise_edition_64-bit == enterprise_edition == datacenter_edition
CVE-2006-0008	High	February 14, 2006 2/14/06	== web == enterprise == enterprise_64-bit == standard_64-bit == datacenter_64-bit-sp1 == r2-sp1 == enterprise_64-bit-sp1 == r2 == web-sp1 == standard-sp1 == enterprise-sp1 == standard

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Vulnerability (CVE) and why does it matter?

A security vulnerability is a weakness in software, hardware, or configuration that can be exploited to compromise confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Many vulnerabilities are tracked as CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), which provide a standardized identifier so teams can coordinate patching, mitigation, and risk assessment across tools and vendors.

CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) estimates technical severity, but it doesn't automatically equal business risk. Prioritize using context like internet exposure, affected asset criticality, known exploitation (proof-of-concept or in-the-wild), and whether compensating controls exist. A "Medium" CVSS on an exposed, production system can be more urgent than a "Critical" on an isolated, non-production host.

A vulnerability is the underlying weakness. An exploit is the method or code used to take advantage of it. A zero-day is a vulnerability that is unknown to the vendor or has no publicly available fix when attackers begin using it. In practice, risk increases sharply when exploitation becomes reliable or widespread.

Recurring findings usually come from incomplete Asset Discovery, inconsistent patch management, inherited images, and configuration drift. In modern environments, you also need to watch the software supply chain: dependencies, containers, build pipelines, and third-party services can reintroduce the same weakness even after you patch a single host. Unknown or unmanaged assets (often called Shadow IT) are a common reason the same issues resurface.

Use a simple, repeatable triage model: focus first on externally exposed assets, high-value systems (identity, VPN, email, production), vulnerabilities with known exploits, and issues that enable remote code execution or privilege escalation. Then enforce patch SLAs and track progress using consistent metrics so remediation is steady, not reactive.

SynScan combines attack surface monitoring and continuous security auditing to keep your inventory current, flag high-impact vulnerabilities early, and help you turn raw findings into a practical remediation plan.