CVE-1999-1358

no score yetEPSS 1.4%

microsoft: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When an administrator in Windows NT or Windows 2000 changes a user policy, the policy is not properly updated if the local ntconfig.pol is not writable by the user, which could allow local users to bypass restrictions that would otherwise be enforced by the policy, possibly by changing the policy file to be read-only.

EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 1999-12-31
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

microsoft:windows_2000
microsoft:windows_nt

References

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q157/6/73.asp
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7400.php
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q157/6/73.asp
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7400.php

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