PT-2009-2984 · Microsoft · Windows

Published 2009-01-28 · Updated 2019-02-26 · CVE-2009-0320

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows versions prior to the fixed version

Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information by exposing I/O activity measurements of all processes. This can be demonstrated by reading the I/O Other Bytes column in Task Manager (taskmgr.exe) to estimate the number of characters that a different user entered at a runas.exe password prompt, which is related to a "benchmarking attack."

Recommendations For Microsoft Windows versions prior to the fixed version, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Race Condition

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-0320

Affected Products

Windows

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0320 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/500393/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/33440 · Note