CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-0492

Published: Jun 04, 2000 | Modified: Sep 10, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

PassWD 1.2 uses weak encryption (trivial encoding) to store passwords, which allows an attacker who can read the password file to easliy decrypt the passwords.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Passwd Passwd 1.2 (including) 1.2 (including)

References