CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1049

10.0 HIGH Published 1999-02-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-02-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

ARCserve NT agents use weak encryption (XOR) for passwords, which allows remote attackers to sniff the authentication request to port 6050 and decrypt the password.

Affected configurations

• broadcom arcserve backup (<= 6.5)

References