CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1467

7.5 HIGH Published 2001-04-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-04-11
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

mkpasswd in expect 5.2.8, as used by Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.0, seeds its random number generator with its process ID, which limits the space of possible seeds and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force password attacks.

Affected configurations

• don libes expect 5.2.8

References