A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/2000 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component NTFS File System. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication spoofing vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-290. This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

NTFS file system in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 SP2 allows local attackers to hide file usage activities via a hard link to the target file, which causes the link to be recorded in the audit trail instead of the target file.

The weakness was released 09/05/2002 with @stake (Website). The advisory is available at atstake.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2002-0725. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (9869) and SecurityFocus (BID 5484†). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-18744.

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• 2000
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