CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0720

7.2 HIGH Published 2002-09-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2002-09-05
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

A handler routine for the Network Connection Manager (NCM) in Windows 2000 allows local users to gain privileges via a complex attack that causes the handler to run in the LocalSystem context with user-specified code.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows 2000 terminal services

References

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9856.php www.iss.net
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5480 www.securityfocus.com
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-042 docs.microsoft.com
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A26 oval.cisecurity.org
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9856.php www.iss.net
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5480 www.securityfocus.com
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-042 docs.microsoft.com
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A26 oval.cisecurity.org