A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows 2000 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Hardware Breakpoint Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Windows 2000 allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges by setting a hardware breakpoint that is handled using global debug registers, which could cause other processes to terminate due to an exception, and allow hijacking of resources such as named pipes.

The issue has been introduced in 02/17/2000. The weakness was shared 05/24/2001 by Georgi Guninski as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2001-1347. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 462 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Applying the patch SP2 is able to eliminate this problem.

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• 2000

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• commercial

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