A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Microsoft Windows (Operating System) (affected version not known). This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality.

The weakness was published 01/01/2002. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10916 (Microsoft Windows - Local Users Information : Passwords Never Expire), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : User management and running in the context l.

It is possible to mitigate the problem by applying the configuration setting .

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (1305) and Tenable (10916). Similar entries are available at 88269, 88268, 88266 and 88264.

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• Operating System

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• Microsoft

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• Windows

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• commercial

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