CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-4696

2.1 LOW Published 2005-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-31
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

The Microsoft Wireless Zero Configuration system (WZCS) stores WEP keys and pair-wise Master Keys (PMK) of the WPA pre-shared key in plaintext in memory of the explorer process, which allows attackers with access to process memory to steal the keys and access the network.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows xp

References