CVE-2007-3463 describes a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 where a local user, leveraging sessions created by another user's RunAs command, can terminate arbitrary processes belonging to that other user. This issue carries a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C), indicating a low-complexity attack requiring local access and user authentication, resulting in a complete loss of availability for the affected processes. Despite the potential for denial of service, the vendor considered RunAs a convenience feature, not a security boundary. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.