CVE-2002-0367
Published 2002-06-25 · Updated 2026-06-16 · Source cve@mitre.org
Summary
CVE-2002-0367 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by March 24, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Microsoft has 390 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 117 of them linked to ransomware.
All 390 known-exploited Microsoft vulnerabilities →Description
smss.exe debugging subsystem in Windows NT and Windows 2000 does not properly authenticate programs that connect to other programs, which allows local users to gain administrator or SYSTEM privileges by duplicating a handle to a privileged process, as demonstrated by DebPloit.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Microsoft — Windows
Name: Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-03-03 · Due: 2022-03-24
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=101614320402695&w=2
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8462.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/262074
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/264441
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/264927
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4287
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-024
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A158

