CVE-1999-0496

Windows NT 4.0 - Privilege Escalation via NtOpenProcessToken Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mskb
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ146965

Scores

EPSS 0.0141
EPSS Percentile 70.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (1)
microsoft/windows_nt 4.0
Published Jan 01, 1997
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026