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CVE-2002-0443
Microsoft Windows 2000 allows local users to bypass the policy that prohibits reusing old passwords by changing the current password…
Medium4.6EPSS 4.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Microsoft Windows 2000 allows local users to bypass the policy that prohibits reusing old passwords by changing the current password before it expires, which does not enable the check for previous passwords.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.7% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- win2k-password-bypass-policy(8402) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20020307 Windows 2000 password policy bypass possibility (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 4256 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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