CVE-2007-0843 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2007-0843?

CVE-2007-0843 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 23 Feb 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ReadDirectoryChangesW API function on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, and Vista does not check permissions for child objects, which allows local users to bypass permissions by opening a directory with LIST (READ) access and using ReadDirectoryChangesW to monitor changes of files that do not have LIST permissions, which can be leveraged to determine filenames, access times, and other sensitive information.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-0843?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2007-0843?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-0843 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2007-0843 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-0843 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry and 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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-gwhq-68gv-8x93.