CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1073

Published: Nov 30, 1998 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Excite for Web Servers (EWS) 1.1 records the first two characters of a plaintext password in the beginning of the encrypted password, which makes it easier for an attacker to guess passwords via a brute force or dictionary attack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ews Excite 1.1 (including) 1.1 (including)

References