Vulnerability in Sybase Easerver

CVE-2006-2539

Sybase EAServer 5.0 for HP-UX Itanium, 5.2 for IBM AIX, HP-UX PA-RISC, Linux x86, and Sun Solaris SPARC, and 5.3 for Sun Solaris SPARC does not properly protect passwords when they are being entered via the GUI, which allows local users to obtain the cleartext passwords via the getSelectedText function in javax.swing.JPasswordField component.

EPSS: 0.003 (22.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sybase Easerver — versions 5.0, 5.2, 5.3
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)