CVE-2000-0487

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

The Protected Store in Windows 2000 does not properly select the strongest encryption when available, which causes it to use a default of 40-bit encryption instead of 56-bit DES encryption, aka the "Protected Store Key Length" vulnerability.

The Protected Store in Windows 2000 does not properly select the strongest encryption when available, which causes it to use a default of 40-bit encryption instead of 56-bit DES encryption, aka the "Protected Store Key Length" vulnerability.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 24 years ago

2000-06-01 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2000

References

1295

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

MS00-032

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