CVE-1999-1358

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-03-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

When an administrator in Windows NT or Windows 2000 changes a user policy, the policy is not properly updated if the local ntconfig.pol is not writable by the user, which could allow local users to bypass restrictions that would otherwise be enforced by the policy, possibly by changing the policy file to be read-only.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
Microsoft Windows Nt: all versions

References

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q157/6/73.asp
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7400.php
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q157/6/73.asp
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7400.php

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