CVE-2009-0320

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-200 Information Leak / Disclosure

Publication date:

28/01/2009

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003 and 2008, and Vista exposes I/O activity measurements of all processes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by reading the I/O Other Bytes column in Task Manager (aka taskmgr.exe) to estimate the number of characters that a different user entered at a runas.exe password prompt, related to a "benchmarking attack."

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_vista::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_vista::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::::::::

CVE-2009-0320

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools