CVE-1999-1275

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Lotus cc:Mail release 8 stores the postoffice password in plaintext in a hidden file which has insecure permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Lotus cc:Mail release 8 stores the postoffice password in plaintext in a hidden file which has insecure permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 27 years ago

1997-09-08 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

IBM Lotus cc Mail 8.0

8.0

References

19970908 Password unsecurity in cc:Mail release 8

Vendor Advisory

lotus-ccmail-passwords(1619)

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