Title: Economist Screen Saver Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
The Economist 99 screen saver application (available from http://www.economist.com) may be configured to allow unauthorized users to access system resources without a password, even though the screen saver has been set to require NT user authentication. If the Password Protected checkbox has been enabled, it is still possible to launch Internet Explorer. Using IE, it is possible to browse local system resources and launch various applications.
If the screen saver is running under the context us the logged-on console user, the attacker will only have access to resources to which the logged-on console user has access.
Affected Products:
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
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