CVE-2002-0443

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Microsoft Windows 2000 allows local users to bypass the policy that prohibits reusing old passwords by changing the current password before it expires, which does not enable the check for previous passwords.

Microsoft Windows 2000 allows local users to bypass the policy that prohibits reusing old passwords by changing the current password before it expires, which does not enable the check for previous passwords.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 22 years ago

2002-07-26 04:00:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-30 14:27:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft windows 2000_sp1

Microsoft windows 2000_sp2

References

20020307 Windows 2000 password policy bypass possibility

Vendor Advisory

win2k-password-bypass-policy(8402)

Vendor Advisory

4256

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

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