Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 28, 2009· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2009-0320
CVE-2009-0320
Description
Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003 and 2008, and Vista exposes I/O activity measurements of all processes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by reading the I/O Other Bytes column in Task Manager (aka taskmgr.exe) to estimate the number of characters that a different user entered at a runas.exe password prompt, related to a "benchmarking attack."
Affected products
4- cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_vista:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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