CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1676

2.1 LOW Published 2002-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

BindView NetInventory 1.0, when used with NetRC 1.0, allows local users to read sensitive information (passwords) by deleting the HOSTCFG._NI file and forcing an audit, which rewrites the HOSTCFG._NI to HOSTCFG.INI and stores the passwords in cleartext until the audit is complete.

Affected configurations

• bindview netinventory 1.0 • bindview netrc 1.0

References