Microsoft Windows 2000 Domain Account Lockout Vulnerability

eliminates a security vulnerability which could allow a malicious user to use repeated attempts to guess an account password even if the domain administrator had set an account lockout policy.

Operating system

Windows 2000

File size

215 KB

License

Freeware

Last updated

Feb 7, 2025

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Overview

What is Microsoft Windows 2000 Domain Account Lockout Vulnerability?

eliminates a security vulnerability which could allow a malicious user to use repeated attempts to guess an account password even if the domain administrator had set an account lockout policy.

In depth

A closer look at Microsoft Windows 2000 Domain Account Lockout Vulnerability

The vulnerability could enable a malicious user to conduct a brute force password-guessing attack against a Windows machine. The attack could only be targeted at the account of a user who had previously logged into the target machine, and whose login credentials were cached on the machine.

Verdict

Should you download Microsoft Windows 2000 Domain Account Lockout Vulnerability?

Microsoft Windows 2000 Domain Account Lockout Vulnerability runs on Windows 2000 and is available under the Freeware license — the installer is 215 KB. We’ve catalogued it under System.

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