CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-3316
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-10-27
- 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
The installation of ON Symantec Discovery 4.5.x and Symantec Discovery 6.0 creates the (1) DiscoveryWeb and (2) DiscoveryRO database accounts with null passwords, which could allow attackers to gain privileges or prevent Discovery from running by setting another password.
Affected configurations
• symantec discovery 6.0
• symantec on command discovery standard 4.5
• symantec on command discovery web 4.5
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17302 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/112 securityreason.com
- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.10.24.html securityresponse.symantec.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015097 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15188 www.securityfocus.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17302 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/112 securityreason.com
- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.10.24.html securityresponse.symantec.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015097 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15188 www.securityfocus.com