CVE-1999-0496

Published Jan 1, 1997

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description: A Windows NT 4.0 user can gain administrative rights by forcing NtOpenProcessToken to succeed regardless of the user's permissions, aka GetAdmin.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.2
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-264

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "E53CDA8E-50A8-4509-B070-CCA5604FFB21"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References