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CVE-2006-3443
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Winlogon in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, when SafeDllSearchMode is disabled, allows local users to…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 23% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Winlogon in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, when SafeDllSearchMode is disabled, allows local users to gain privileges via a malicious DLL in the UserProfile directory, aka "User Profile Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 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 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- 1016662 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- MS06-051 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:155 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 21417 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3216 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 19375 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- VU#337244 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-3439 (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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