CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1073

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 records the first two characters of a plaintext password in the beginning of the encrypted password, which makes it easier for an attacker to guess passwords via a brute force or dictionary attack.

Affected configurations

• excite ews 1.1

References