CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0496

Published: Jan 01, 1997 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0496
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

A Windows NT 4.0 user can gain administrative rights by forcing NtOpenProcessToken to succeed regardless of the users permissions, aka GetAdmin.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Windows_nt	Microsoft	4.0 (including)	4.0 (including)

References

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