Vulnerability in Pwgen Project
CVE-2013-4440
Password Generator (aka Pwgen) before 2.07 generates weak non-tty passwords, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess the password via a brute-force attack.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.018 (78.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/06/1 (mailing-list)
- sourceforge.net/p/pwgen/code/ci/00118ccac4656adb028504639b313d7b09e62b79/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146237.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146015.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/16/15 (mailing-list)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146285.html (vendor-advisory)
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0535.html