CVE-2001-1517 (GCVE-0-2001-1517)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-07-14 04:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:12 Disputed
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Summary
RunAs (runas.exe) in Windows 2000 stores cleartext authentication information in memory, which could allow attackers to obtain usernames and passwords by executing a process that is allocated the same memory page after termination of a RunAs command. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, saying that administrative privileges are already required to exploit it, and the original researcher did not respond to requests for additional information
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/… mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCH
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2001… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7531.php vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
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