Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-0320

Title: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Information Disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-0320.

CWE Category CWE-200
Published Date Jan 28, 2009
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-0320: Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003 and 2008, and Vista exposes I/O activity measurements of all processes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by reading the I/O Other Bytes column in Task Manager (aka taskmgr.exe) to estimate the number of characters that a different user entered at a runas.exe password prompt, related to a "benchmarking attack."

Impacted Vendors

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Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500393/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33440 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500393/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33440
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-0320 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.