CVE-2001-1169

Published Sep 2, 2001

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description: keyinit in S/Key does not require authentication to initialize a one-time password sequence, which allows an attacker who has gained privileges to a user account to create new one-time passwords for use in other activities that may use S/Key authentication, such as sudo.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:bell_communications_research:s_key:gold:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "3FD5B3D1-6E0F-48D7-B434-6B581AA79A1F"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References