CVE-2002-0643

Summary

CVECVE-2002-0643
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-07-23 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe installation of Microsoft Data Engine 1.0 (MSDE 1.0), and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 creates setup.iss files with insecure permissions and does not delete them after installation, which allows local users to obtain sensitive data, including weakly encrypted passwords, to gain privileges, aka "SQL Server Installation Process May Leave Passwords on System."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Data Engine 1.0 All All All
Application Microsoft Sql Server 2000 All All All
Application Microsoft Sql Server 2000 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Sql Server 2000 sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Sql Server 7.0 All All All
Application Microsoft Sql Server 7.0 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Sql Server 7.0 sp2 All All
Application Microsoft Sql Server 7.0 sp3 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
'SQL Server 7 & 2000 Installation process and Service Packs write encoded passwords to a file' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
'SQL Server 7 & 2000 Installation process and Service Packs write encoded passwords to a file' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-035 - Moderate | Microsoft Docs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.microsoft.com
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#338195 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
Microsoft MS-SQL Server Installation Password Caching Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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