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 ID | CVE-2002-0720 |
|---|---|
| Severity | HIGH |
| CVSS score | 7.2 |
| CVSS vector | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| CWE | NVD-CWE-Other |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2002-09-05 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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