CVE-2010-0237: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 and XP SP2 and SP3 allows local users to gain privileges by creating a symbolic link from an untrusted registry hive to a trusted registry hive, aka "Windows Kernel Symbolic Link Creation Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2010-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.