CVE-2004-2730 describes a vulnerability in Sysinternals PsTools versions prior to 2.05, including various utilities like PsExec and PsInfo. The flaw allows local users to gain elevated privileges by accessing remote IPC$ and ADMIN$ shares that were not properly disconnected by the tools, leveraging existing share mappings. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating a medium severity. It requires local access (AV:L) and has low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:P/I:P/A:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, suggesting it has not garnered significant attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.53CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:psexec:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:psgetsid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.60CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:psinfo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.02CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:pskill:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:pslist:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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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 records are not available for this CVE.