CVE-2006-1378

Published Mar 24, 2006

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.9
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Evaluator

Comment
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Impact
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Solution
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Configurations