Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000

CVE-2001-1518

RunAs (runas.exe) in Windows 2000 only creates one session instance at a time, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (RunAs hang) by creating a named pipe session with the authentication server without any request for service. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, however the vendor also presents a scenario in which other users could be affected if running on a Terminal Server. Therefore this is a vulnerability.

EPSS: 0.035 (87.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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