VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2002-0720
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.
HIGH 7.2EPSS 2.18%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.18%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 2.18% probability · 81th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/windows 2000 · microsoft/windows 2000 terminal services
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9856.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5480
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-042
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A26
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9856.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5480
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-042
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A26
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.