CVE-2005-3171 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2005-3171?

CVE-2005-3171 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 6 Oct 2005.

Official description

Microsoft Windows 2000 before Update Rollup 1 for SP4 records Event ID 1704 to indicate that Group Policy security settings were successfully updated, even when the processing fails such as when Ntuser.pol cannot be accessed, which could cause system administrators to believe that the system is compliant with the specified settings.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-3171?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2005-3171?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-3171 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2005-3171 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-3171 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
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Also known as GHSA-j5rr-f36w-34g4.