CVE-2005-3171: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Windows 2000 before Update Rollup 1 for SP4 records Event ID 1704 to indicate that Group Policy security settings were successfully updated, even when the processing fails such as when Ntuser.pol cannot be accessed, which could cause system administrators to believe that the system is compliant with the specified settings.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version

Published 2005-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.