CVEvulnerability
CVE-2000-0487
3.6 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2000-06-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 2000
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1295 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-032 docs.microsoft.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1295 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-032 docs.microsoft.com