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CVE-2000-0402

71
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0402 describes a plaintext password storage vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 7.0's Mixed Mode authentication. The System Administrator (sa) account password is written to a log file, making it readable by any local user. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of information disclosure. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), exploit modules are available in Metasploit and ExploitDB, demonstrating proof-of-concept for payload execution. Despite its age and low CVSS, its high EPSS and FAUCET scores suggest a higher-than-average likelihood of exploitation given its availability of exploit code.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:7.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:7.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
90.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Microsoft SQL Server Payload Execution · May 30, 2000
ExploitDB: EDB-16394 · Feb 8, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9061 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-035
microsoft.com / technet/support/kb.asp
securityfocus.com / bid/1281