Vulnerability in Counterpane Password Safe
CVE-2001-0984
Password Safe 1.7(1) leaves cleartext passwords in memory when a user copies the password to the clipboard and minimizes Password Safe with the "Clear the password when minimized" and "Lock password database on minimize and prompt on restore" options enabled, which could allow an attacker with access to the memory (e.g. an administrator) to read the passwords.
EPSS: 0.003 (27.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Counterpane Password_safe — versions 1.7.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)