CVE-2001-1517 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2001-1517?

CVE-2001-1517 is a low-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 14 Jul 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-1517?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2001-1517?

No fix has been published for CVE-2001-1517 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2001-1517 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2001-1517 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-6w2r-x6qc-ch2w.