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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in PassWD 1.2. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Password Handler. The manipulation leads to missing encryption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2000-0492. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in PassWD 1.2. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code of the component Password Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing encryption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-311. The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was released 06/04/2000 by Daniel Roethlisberger with Compass Security Network Computing (CSNC) as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2000-0492. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1600 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (19989) and SecurityFocus (BID 1300†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Name

• PassWD

Version

• 1.2

CPE 2.3info

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv4info

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VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.9

VulDB Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Temp Score: 5.9
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv2info

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Missing encryption
CWE: CWE-311 / CWE-310
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Programming Language: 🔍
Download: 🔍

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
Status: 🔍

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Timelineinfo

06/04/2000 🔍
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06/04/2000 +0 days 🔍
06/24/2014 +5133 days 🔍
04/06/2025 +3939 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Daniel Roethlisberger
Organization: Compass Security Network Computing (CSNC)
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2000-0492 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2000-0492
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-15621
SecurityFocus: 1300 - PassWD 1.2 Weak Encryption Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 06/24/2014 11:43 PM
Updated: 04/06/2025 09:35 PM
Changes: 06/24/2014 11:43 PM (55), 05/25/2018 10:12 AM (1), 04/06/2025 09:35 PM (21)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 18:71D:40

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