CVE-2000-0487

Published Jun 1, 2000

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 3.6
Impact score: 4.9
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

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            "matchCriteriaId": "4E545C63-FE9C-4CA1-AF0F-D999D84D2AFD"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References