CVE-2000-0487 Weak cryptography in n/a

What is CVE-2000-0487?

CVE-2000-0487 is a low-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 12 Jul 2000.

Official description

The Protected Store in Windows 2000 does not properly select the strongest encryption when available, which causes it to use a default of 40-bit encryption instead of 56-bit DES encryption, aka the "Protected Store Key Length" vulnerability.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0487?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0487?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0487 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2000-0487 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-0487 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000

• CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-0232 Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1123 Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2002-0367 Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2010-0269 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-m4m3-6vcg-7fh3.