CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-1378

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2006-03-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-03-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Description

PasswordSafe 3.0 beta, when running on Windows before XP, uses a weak random number generator (C++ rand function) during generation of the database encryption key, which makes it easier for attackers to decrypt the database and steal passwords by generating keys for all possible rand() seed values and conducting a known plaintext attack.

Affected configurations

• counterpane password safe 3.0

References