Vulnerability in Counterpane Password Safe
CVE-2006-1378
PasswordSafe 3.0 beta, when running on Windows before XP, uses a weak random number generator (C++ rand function) during generation of the database encryption key, which makes it easier for attackers to decrypt the database and steal passwords by generating keys for all possible rand() seed values and conducting a known plaintext attack.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (23.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 23rd percentile — 23.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- Counterpane Password Safe — versions 3.0
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25429 (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/618 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428552/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445509/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/17200 (Exploit, vdb-entry)