CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4440
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
Password Generator (aka Pwgen) before 2.07 generates weak non-tty passwords, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess the password via a brute-force attack.
Affected configurations
• pwgen project pwgen (<= 2.06)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html advisories.mageia.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146015.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146285.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://sourceforge.net/p/pwgen/code/ci/00118ccac4656adb028504639b313d7b09e62b79/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:008 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/06/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/15 www.openwall.com
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html advisories.mageia.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146015.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146285.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://sourceforge.net/p/pwgen/code/ci/00118ccac4656adb028504639b313d7b09e62b79/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:008 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/06/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/15 www.openwall.com