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CVE-2002-0720 — HIGH severity vulnerability (A handler routine for the Network Connection Manager (NCM) i)

A handler routine for the Network Connection Manager (NCM) in Windows 2000 allows local users to gain privileges via a complex attack that causes the handler to run in the LocalSystem context with user-specified code.

CVE IDCVE-2002-0720
SeverityHIGH
CVSS score7.2
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2002-09-05
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionA handler routine for the Network Connection Manager (NCM) in Windows 2000 allows local users to gain privileges via a complex attack that causes the handler to run in the LocalSystem context with user-specified code.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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