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CVE-2009-0320

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.0 Published: 2009-01-28 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003 and 2008, and Vista exposes I/O activity measurements of all processes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by reading the I/O Other Bytes column in Task Manager (aka taskmgr.exe) to estimate the number of characters that a different user entered at a runas.exe password prompt, related to a "benchmarking attack."

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows Server 2003Microsoft Windows Server 2008Microsoft Windows XpMicrosoft Windows Vista

Weakness Type

CWE-200, CWE-362

References