CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-3209

7.2 HIGH Published 2006-06-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-06-24
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 Task scheduler (at.exe) on Microsoft Windows XP spawns each scheduled process with SYSTEM permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by third parties, who state that the Task scheduler is limited to the Administrators group by default upon installation

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows xp

References