Denial of Service Vulnerability in RunAs (runas.exe) in Windows 2000

CVE-2001-1518 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

RunAs (runas.exe) in Windows 2000 only creates one session instance at a time, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (RunAs hang) by creating a named pipe session with the authentication server without any request for service. NOTE: the vendor disputes this vulnerability, however the vendor also presents a scenario in which other users could be affected if running on a Terminal Server. Therefore this is a vulnerability.

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