CVEvulnerability
CVE-2000-0492
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2000-06-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
PassWD 1.2 uses weak encryption (trivial encoding) to store passwords, which allows an attacker who can read the password file to easliy decrypt the passwords.
Affected configurations
• passwd passwd 1.2
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0450.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1300 www.securityfocus.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-05/0450.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1300 www.securityfocus.com