CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1184

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2002-11-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-11-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The system root folder of Microsoft Windows 2000 has default permissions of Everyone group with Full access (Everyone:F) and is in the search path when locating programs during login or application launch from the desktop, which could allow attackers to gain privileges as other users via Trojan horse programs.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows nt 4.0

References