Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000

CVE-2005-3171

Microsoft Windows 2000 before Update Rollup 1 for SP4 records Event ID 1704 to indicate that Group Policy security settings were successfully updated, even when the processing fails such as when Ntuser.pol cannot be accessed, which could cause system administrators to believe that the system is compliant with the specified settings.

EPSS: 0.012 (65.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_MSKB, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_MSKB, Vendor Advisory)