CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1072

7.2 HIGH Published 1998-11-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-11-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 allows local users to gain privileges by obtaining the encrypted password from the world-readable Architext.conf authentication file and replaying the encrypted password in an HTTP request to AT-generated.cgi or AT-admin.cgi.

Affected configurations

• excite ews 1.1

References