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CVE-2009-0320

CVE information

Published

15 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003 and 2008, and Vista exposes I/O activity measurements of all processes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by reading the I/O Other Bytes column in Task Manager (aka taskmgr.exe) to estimate the number of characters that a different user entered at a runas.exe password prompt, related to a "benchmarking attack.".

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4/10
Exploit Score
1.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_vista:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -