CVE-2005-3174

Summary

CVECVE-2005-3174
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-10-06 10:02:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMicrosoft Windows 2000 before Update Rollup 1 for SP4 allows users to log on to the domain, even when their password has expired, if the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) is 8 characters long.

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
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 All sp4 All fr

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fixes that are included in the Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 that is dated June 28, 2005 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.microsoft.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Users who have expired passwords can still log on to the domain if the FQDN is exactly eight characters long in Windows 2000 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.microsoft.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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