A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Snapstream Personal Video Station 1.2a. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file SSD.ini of the component Password Storage. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cleartext storage vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-312. The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

SnapStream PVS 1.2a stores its passwords in plaintext in the file SSD.ini, which could allow a remote attacker to gain privileges on the server.

The weakness was presented 07/26/2001 by ERRor (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2001-1107. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1555 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:SSD.ini it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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 vulnerability database at X-Force (6917). See 17094 for similar entry.

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