CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2539

3.5 LOW Published 2006-05-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-05-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.5 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Sybase EAServer 5.0 for HP-UX Itanium, 5.2 for IBM AIX, HP-UX PA-RISC, Linux x86, and Sun Solaris SPARC, and 5.3 for Sun Solaris SPARC does not properly protect passwords when they are being entered via the GUI, which allows local users to obtain the cleartext passwords via the getSelectedText function in javax.swing.JPasswordField component.

Affected configurations

• sybase easerver 5.0 • sybase easerver 5.2 • sybase easerver 5.3

References