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CVE-2001-1519

LOW CVSS: 3.6 Published: 2001-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

RunAs (runas.exe) in Windows 2000 allows local users to create a spoofed named pipe when the service is stopped, then capture cleartext usernames and passwords when clients connect to the service. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, saying that administrative privileges are already required to exploit it

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows 2000

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References