CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1169

7.5 HIGH Published 2001-09-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-09-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

keyinit in S/Key does not require authentication to initialize a one-time password sequence, which allows an attacker who has gained privileges to a user account to create new one-time passwords for use in other activities that may use S/Key authentication, such as sudo.

Affected configurations

• bell communications research s key gold

References