CVEvulnerability
CVE-2000-0979
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2000-12-19
- Last modified
- 2026-09-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Description
File and Print Sharing service in Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me does not properly check the password for a file share, which allows remote attackers to bypass share access controls by sending a 1-byte password that matches the first character of the real password, aka the "Share Level Password" vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 95
• microsoft windows 98
• microsoft windows 98se
• microsoft windows me
Related
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97147777618139&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1780 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-072 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5395 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A996 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97147777618139&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1780 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-072 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5395 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A996 oval.cisecurity.org