CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0420

7.2 HIGH Published 2000-05-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-05-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The default configuration of SYSKEY in Windows 2000 stores the startup key in the registry, which could allow an attacker tor ecover it and use it to decrypt Encrypted File System (EFS) data.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000

References