Vulnerability in Passwd

CVE-2000-0492

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.

EPSS: 0.012 (64.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Passwd — versions 1.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)