CVE-2006-2380 Auth bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2006-2380?

CVE-2006-2380 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 13 Jun 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 does not properly validate an RPC server during mutual authentication over SSL, which allows remote attackers to spoof an RPC server, aka the "RPC Mutual Authentication Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-2380?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2006-2380?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-2380 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2006-2380 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-2380 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-jh59-wj27-m7p6.