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CVE-2004-2730

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-10-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Sysinternals PsTools before 2.05, including (1) PsExec before 1.54, (2) PsGetsid before 1.41, (3) PsInfo before 1.61, (4) PsKill before 1.03, (5) PsList before 1.26, (6) PsLoglist before 2.51, (7) PsPasswd before 1.21, (8) PsService before 2.12, (9) PsSuspend before 1.05, and (10) PsShutdown before 2.32, does not properly disconnect from remote IPC$ and ADMIN$ shares, which allows local users to access the shares with elevated privileges by using the existing share mapping.

Affected products

• Microsoft PsExec: through 1.53
• Microsoft Psgetsid: through 1.40
• Microsoft Psinfo: through 1.60
• Microsoft Pskill: through 1.02
• Microsoft Pslist: through 1.25
• Microsoft Psloglist: through 2.50
• Microsoft Pspasswd: through 1.20
• Microsoft Psservice: through 2.11
• Microsoft Psshutdown: through 2.31
• Microsoft Pssuspend: through 1.04
• Microsoft Sysinternals Pstools: through 2.04

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/12108
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1010737
• http://www.osvdb.org/8140
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10759
• http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=28304
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16743
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12108
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1010737
• http://www.osvdb.org/8140
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10759
• http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=28304
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16743

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