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Title: Microsoft Windows 2000 Unattended Install OEMPreinstall Vulnerability

Severity: LOW

Description:

The directories All Users and Default User are left world writable during an unattended install of Windows 2000 that has the option OEMPreinstall set to '1' in the answer file. A malicious user could insert a trojan into \{All Users}{Default User}\Start Menu\Programs\Startup which would be automatically executed once another user was to log onto the system.

The aforementioned directories should only be writable by the Administrator and SYSTEM groups.

Affected Products:

  • Avaya DefinityOne Media Servers
  • Avaya IP600 Media Servers
  • Avaya S3400 Message Application Server
  • Avaya S8100 Media Servers
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

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