CVE-2001-1519: Microsoft Windows 2000

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

RunAs (runas.exe) in Windows 2000 allows local users to create a spoofed named pipe when the service is stopped, then capture cleartext usernames and passwords when clients connect to the service. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, saying that administrative privileges are already required to exploit it

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.