Unscored CVE-2001-0261 EUVD-2001-0261GHSA-fp6q-9qw2-6vhc

Microsoft Windows 2000 Encrypted File System does not properly destroy backups of files that are encrypted, which allows a local attacker t…

Published Apr 4, 2001 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Microsoft Windows 2000 Encrypted File System does not properly destroy backups of files that are encrypted, which allows a local attacker to recover the text of encrypted files.

References

20010119 BugTraq: EFS Win 2000 flaw mailing-list
20010123 Reply to EFS note on Bugtraq mailing-list
2243 vdb-entry
win2k-efs-recover-data(5973) vdb-entry