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CVE-2000-0487

LOW CVSS: 3.6 Published: 2000-06-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows 2000

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References