Microsoft Windows 2000 Domain Authentication Bypass attack - Ver2 (CVE-2004-0540)

An authentication bypass vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows 2000. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access into the affected system...

CVE-2004-0540

CVE-2004-0540 affects Microsoft Windows 2000 domain authentication: if the domain FQDN is exactly eight characters, the system does not prevent logons by users with expired passwords, constituting an authentication bypass in the domain logon flow. The connected advisory (CPAI-2015-0384) corrobora...