CVE-2002-0725: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NTFS file system in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 SP2 allows local attackers to hide file usage activities via a hard link to the target file, which causes the link to be recorded in the audit trail instead of the target file.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only

Published 2002-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.