CVE-2002-1772: Novell Netware

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Novell Netware 5.0 through 5.1 may allow local users to gain "Domain Admin" rights by logging into a Novell Directory Services (NDS) account, and executing "net use" on an NDS_ADM account that is not in the NT domain but has domain access rights, which allows the user to enter a null password.

Affected products

• Novell Netware: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.