CVE-2001-0502: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Running Windows 2000 LDAP Server over SSL, a function does not properly check the permissions of a user request when the directory principal is a domain user and the data attribute is the domain password, which allows local users to modify the login password of other users.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version

Published 2001-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.