Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Nt
CVE-1999-1365
Windows NT searches a user's home directory (%systemroot% by default) before other directories to find critical programs such as NDDEAGNT.EXE, EXPLORER.EXE, USERINIT.EXE or TASKMGR.EXE, which could allow local users to bypass access restrictions or gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse program into the root directory, which is writable by default.
EPSS: 0.019 (78.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows_nt
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)